Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although not conceived with cynical intent, the early dismissal from school is a reflection on the sense of proportion of the general public. A not unin fluential group has determined that America shall not slip down the lax road to ruin. The methods employed however, fit ill with the announced intention. Morality in the last analysis would appear to rest on the inclinations and customs of the people and not on the pointed paternalisms of authority...
...Phoenix, Ariz., excavations in La Ciudad, a pueblo ruin, continued under Archeologist Erick Schmidt of the American Museum of Natural History. Rewards: carved shells, pottery, arrowheads, grinding stones, two skeletons thought to be those of the race of Canal-Builders who first irrigated the Salt River valley...
Bride of the Lamb. Every so often and ever since Ruin the playwrights have been putting a tentative foot on the thin ice above the deep affinity between sex and religion. Now a playwright, William J. Hurlbut, has stepped full on it and there are some who say that it will break and he will be found thrashing around with the police. Some of these say that he has written a great play and some that it is cheapened by the obviously sensational. All were bound by its spell...
...short time was spent investigation the ruins in the Tse-a-chang Canyon, Southwest of Carrizo Mountains. Promontory Ruin, one of the larger of these, containing about 40 rooms, was of special interest. Several of the kivas or ceremonial rooms found here were in a nearly perfect state of preservation...
Vexed, Senator Smoot cried out: "Go ahead and ruin the bill!" Subsequently the group which had been defeated in seeking to prevent reduction in surtaxes, retain estate taxes, retain tax-publicity, etc., broke loose and, with support of not a few regulars, added $100,000,000* to the tax cut in one wild afternoon. Towards evening Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania suggested adjournment: "We should stop now after this excessive storm." And so they waited until the next day when passions had cooled...