Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Brazilian used her little voice so that every phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love so as not to ruin him. She sang the difficult display-piece Sempre Libera with uncommon charm...
...Brew and his expedition, in north central Arizona, found clues throwing light on the history of the Hopi Indians of the Southwest. The present program in this area will, if successful, present a connected picture of the region from the early Christian era to the burning of Awatovi, the ruin now being excavated, in 1700. Into Honduras, near the Maya empire, Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute sent a party which has discovered pottery from Lake Yojoa...
...excavation of the ruin of Awatovi in Arizona, John O. Brew discovered important clues to the history of the Hopi Indians. A program of excavation in this area has been mapped which it is hoped will present a connected history of southwestern life from the early centuries to the burning of Awatovi...
...writing to her again ("Farewell with God, beloved angel, I embrace you with my whole heart. . . .") when she lay dying in Geneva, stabbed by a political assassin. The news, Franz Joseph thought, filled his cup. And he was right. In 1916, before he could see the ruin of his empire, Death brought him his long-overdue holiday...
...Palmer House at Chicago. The U. S. railroads, said "Uncle Dan" in effect, were just about broke. Maintenance and fixed charges had been cut to the bone. Would the 1.000,000 U. S. railway employes take at 10% temporary deduction in pay to save the roads from ruin? The workers' representatives said yes. Two years later in Washington Capital and Labor again got together, agreed on a staggered plan to restore the deduction, thus unsensationally closing an achievement in national collective bargaining almost Utopian...