Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote for him in 1936?" "Yes." "If he is nominated in 1940 will you vote for him?" "Of course I will- but let me tell you something, mister, if the damn Yankees up North don't quit voting the Democratic ticket they're going to ruin this country!" SCOTT SNODGRASS San Angelo...
Brown pins her hopes of victory on the experience of a veteran team. The starting line-up will be composed of four seniors and seven juniors. All men have previously played in the Harvard Stadium, thus eliminating the chance of jitters which ruin so many potentially good clubs. In addition to that, the few reserves that there are have shown themselves to be capable men. In an address to the Boston Alumni, Coach McLaughry estimated a toss-up game. He said that Brown will flash a new brand of football this year because of the stellar backs that...
Hear ye, the Mosque el Aksa and its surroundings in Palestine have been suffering at the hands of imperialism expressed in terms of atrocities, destruction, robbery and ruin, all of which have been denounced by the entire world...
...undated agglomeration of huge monoliths standing in two great concentric circles, two horseshoes and other scattered positions on a rolling hilltop in Salisbury Plain. Until 1915 Stonehenge was privately owned and considered of only tolerably public interest. Then it was presented to the nation and suddenly became an important ruin. Archeologists quarreled over whether Stonehenge was once a druidical temple, a Saxon sepulchre or a sun temple, whether it was early Bronze Age or earlier Neolithic. Meanwhile, rows of teashops, bungalows, airdromes sprang up nearby. Ten years ago these were ordered razed within a mile radius of Stonehenge...
...crop is the smallest in three years, the price offered growers is the lowest in 20 years. The price paid last year by canners was $44 per ton. Price offered this year so far is $5 a ton. . . . Cost of production is $23 a ton. The result will ruin the majority of growers...