Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slugg, financier, have emerged to harass Annie's foster-parent, Daddy Warbucks, who continues to be a model of industrious honesty. He has begun to market a remarkable new building material when Slugg and Claptrap rouse a mob to burn the factory and kill the inventor. That crime ruins the enterprise and Daddy Warbucks. Daddy behaves with restraint and fortitude, saying only, "Slugg's a crook but he's not important. What is important is that so many people can be fooled by a Claptrap who'd casually ruin a whole people in venting his selfish...
...important and necessary. For the student who is willing to sacrifice two hours a week to work of this nature, the reward is to be found in a clearer understanding of economic problems gained from personal contact with a few of those who are on the edge of economic ruin; in a realization of some of the dangers and limitations of urban life for the under-priviledged; in a lasting impression of some problems of citizenship...
...college career that will be both interesting and edifying. On the other hand, an unwise choice of courses may prevent a man from taking other courses which are more interesting and instructive. It may make it impossible for him to concentrate in the field he prefers, and thus ruin his college career...
...week were supposed to have been secret, but its proceedings leaked out in such detail that everyone who knows the cunning Finance Minister assumed that he had chosen this astute means of letting Japanese public opinion crystallize around the fact that it is now a case of rule or ruin, triumph or bust. In the suppressed opinion of numerous Japanese economists the further the Empire adventures into China the more fatally she overextends herself and risks economic collapse at home. To this Japan's militarists stoutly retort: "There is no such thing as an economic collapse. One can always...
...operators. At the end of the great strike of 1922 he won a great victory over the soft-coal mineowners, only to find later that, like the victorious Allies of 1918, he had lost more than he had won. For the scale of wages he imposed after the strike ruined that portion of the coal industry that was subject to them and the ruin of the industry ruined the union almost beyond repair...