Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen lamp turned his eyes, glazed with horror, upon the erstwhile screaming woman. They looked at each other with a wild conviction. The City of New York was utterly destroyed...
...scare headlines in some papers which use such low-down tactics," referred to "the recent but harmless tremor of the earth," arraigned the News for flaunting on its front page a picture of what might have happened ito this city in a serious earthquake," prophesied that such tactics "mean ruin in the end for a paper belching forth such rot," stated of the News that "no educational thoughts are offered in its pages ; it is just a plain money-making scheme...
...forth in Holden Chapel during the last years of its service under the British flag. Then the war came and Harvard was in the very midst of it. Holden became a barracks, housing no less than 160 men. When the soldiers left the chapel was little better than a ruin...
...some 60 years after its founding, the University was confronted with financial ruin. An appeal for aid was sent to an alumnus, Charles H. Lewis of Boston, a successful business man. On the stipulation that Norwich University became Lewis College, the Bostonian offered financial assistance to the poverty-stricken institution. This was accepted. It served to tide the school over the most trying period in its existence. Two years later, Mr. Lewis met business reverses. Fulfillment of his agreement in whole became impossible. In 1884, Lewis College again became Norwich University...
There is in Memorial Hall the making of a perfect ruin...