Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suffered a broken leg and shoulder he might have risen, seen other ruins, walked through the streets of what a few moments before had been the town of Rock Springs, Tex., which was now a tornado-twisted ruin with less than ten buildings left standing. Of its 800 inhabitants, 56 were killed and from 150 to 170 injured. Texas, a tornado-play-ground, experienced 15 other "twisters" during the week...
...father's suspicions are aroused, Magda forgets her initial caution and attempts to explain the life she has led away from home. Immediately the colonel's conception of honor is outraged, his family name has been irretrievably degraded, and all the household compassed in the ruin of one daughter. To his stiff-necked, unyielding idea of honor the only remedy lies through the bloody channels established by time and tradition. From this point the action might proceed to any one of many conclusions. Sudermann very wisely sees the struggle through, shows it up in its many phases, and leaves...
...buttery", now obsolete, used to be in Harvard Hall. According to one account; "as the commons rendered the college independent of private boarding-houses so the buttery removed all just occasion for resorting to the different marts of luxury, intemperance, and ruin. This was a kind of supplement to commons and offered for sale to students, at a moderate advance on the cost, wines, liquors, groceries, stationery, and, in general, such articles as it was necessary and proper for them to have occasionally, and which, for the most part, were not included in the commons' fare...
President Hopkins believes in the game. The meatiest single sentence in his statement is this: "I do not want to see it exalted to its ruin by uncomprehending forces outside the college life not do I want to see it stifled to its death by exasperated forces within." He sees, what many another student of the situation perceives, that the sport has become an enormous business overshadowing almost all other forms of college activity, and that the men who make the team and great numbers of students who do not reach the varsity, live, through many months of the year...
...attacked evolution: "It nearly ruined me and now it's trying to ruin America. It is making our young men murderers...