Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition he had a third group to satisfy, businessmen who believe that if a business writes its own ticket it will soon bankrupt the economic railroad on which it is traveling. What good, they ask, does it do a business to fix prices or restrict production if high prices ruin its market...
Journeying up to Birmingham for the week end, Chancellor Chamberlain addressed his family's ever faithful constituents. They could safely ignore, he counseled, ugly rumors that out of the recent ruin of prominent London pepper speculators there would soon erupt a British Stavisky scandal involving financiers and statesmen. Pooh-poohed the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "The pepper crisis has been cleared up, and I don't think there is as much as a sneeze to be heard in the City today...
Perhaps lacking an opening in major league managerial circles, the retired home run king has assumed the portenous mission of swatting cricket balls all over the field so persistently as to achieve the complete and permanent ruin of the English national game. That would be something to rank with our own Boston Tea Party...
Greece, Scene of the famed Eleusinian mysteries of ancient Greece lies 14 miles northwest of Athens. The site was despoiled by Alaric the Visigoth in 396 A. D., and its ruin was probably completed in the following century by order of the emperors of Constantinople. It remained buried until 1882 when the Greek Government began excavations. For the last five years Professor George E. Mylonas of Washington University (St. Louis), backed by Rockefeller funds, has been working on the site with three Greek savants. The great hall of mysteries with its gateways and fortifications was uncovered before he appeared...
...making herself as thoroughly despicable and disgusting as anyone possibly could wish. There is, however, a strange contrast to her entrance into her old home for the first time after the six years of her trail and re-trial, and her later simpering, nasty temperament which makes her ruin the lives of the rest of her family. When she first arrives home she acts the part of a normal person coming to her family circle after some extremely trying, emotional ordeal. Her joy and sadness and reactions here, however, are in direct opposition to her later, flighty giddiness which show...