Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Floodlights commonly used in cinema studios may heat up small sets, make actors too uncomfortable to do their best work. Beads of sweat on shapely noses and fine foreheads will ruin takes. Last week a bulky Dutch physicist named Cornells Bol, working at Stanford University, had film producers interested in a tiny, super-powerful lamp which will keep their stars cool while working...
...councils, Popes.* Of gambling, the Catholic Encyclopedia remarks: "If indulged in to excess it leads to loss of time, and usually of money; to an idle and useless life spent in the midst of bad company and unwholesome surroundings; and to scandal which is a source of sin and ruin to others. It panders to the craving for excitement and in many countries it has become so prevalent that it rivals drunkenness in its destructive effects on the lives of the people...
...legend states, "All the earth shall tremble so, and the crags, that trees shall be torn up from the earth, and the crags fall to ruin; and all fetters and bonds shall be broken and rent. . . . In this din shall the heavens be cloven, and the sons of Muspell ride thence: Sutr shall ride first and both before and after him burning fire." Leading the giants is the traitor Loki, holding a flame thrower, and Frey, who opposes him is swept by flames. Thor, the thunder god, rushes to the attack, wielding his mighty workman's hammer...
...Blake puts all his energies into Lloyd's. He has made himself head of its most powerful syndicate when his semaphore brings the news that the French have sunk 63 British merchant ships off the Azores. All of Lloyd's insurance men are on the brink of ruin...
After winning his first major tournament-the British Open in 1933-Densmore Shute did what most playing professionals predicted would speedily ruin his game. Instead of joining the troupe who spend the whole year playing golf for prizes, he calmly continued giving lessons. Shute's lack of competitive sharpening and Thomson's prodigious driving made Thomson a 2-to-1 favorite in last week's final. Out-driven on every hole, sometimes as much as 125 yards, on a course where distance counts, Shute played down the middle of the fairways. Thomson lost the first hole...