Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes the audience forget the screen and follow merely the actions and dialogue of the protagonists. In "Five Star Final" he brings new highs in circulation figures to his tabloid by featuring a scandal of the past which forces the survivors to commit suicide rather than have their shame ruin a daughter's marriage...
...crisis concerned nitrates, needful in peace as fertilizer, in war as the basis of explosives. Because Chile digs nitrates from her natural deposits, because German producers of synthetic nitrogen cut prices, threatened to ruin her, Chile's whole nitrate industry was rationalized, reorganized and speeded up last year by the creation of "Cosach," the $375,000,000 nitrate trust, Compania De Salitre De Chile (TIME, July 28, 1930). Last week the most violent political and editorial attacks on Cosach were hurled up & down the length of slender Chile...
...Manhattan the Brothers Guggenheim bided their time in silence, waited for Chile's seething Cosach pot to clarify. Who was honestly against Cosach, and who wanted money? Were agents of the German synthetic nitrogen trust perhaps at work in Santiago to ruin Cosach? Would smiling President Montero decide to come out for Cosach or against? When the President called courage the greatest need was he only weaseling and watching...
...neck held rigidly in an iron clamp the plate was exposed in a camera for from three to 30 minutes, developed by holding it over a cup of hot mercury, fixed by dipping in a mixture of hyposulphite of soda and gold chloride. Finger marks and heat ruin the image of a daguerreotype...
...children it is exciting fun. To the revelers it is an opportunity to repeat all the nice things Rudyard Kipling has been saying during the past 25 years about British Pluck. To the lovers it means discovery and ruin. To the porky pair, the male member of which shuffles about in that funniest of theatrical garments, the nightshirt, it is just the sort of nuisance one would expect the French to brew. To the novelist it is death...