Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lavisse in his great Histoire de France says that "the principal cause of the ruin of royalty in France was the lack of a King...
...strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when she dies, lands in Nome as Sister Annie Alden, enslaves a young territorial police officer (Philip Reed), renounces him rather than ruin his career, returns to San Francisco to face the music. As usual, the comedy depends mainly upon the incongruity between Mae West's up-to-date wisecracks and their fin de siècle background...
...solemn protest to the League of Nations that "the Government of a Country . . . has insidiously seized the ideas and propositions contained in my plan . . . misusing them for its own selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...
...Sept. 7, 1916 Congress authorized President Wilson to retaliate against the Allies. The President promptly asked his Secretary of Commerce, William C. Redfield, to report on the most practicable procedure. Secretary Redfield reported about a fortnight before the 1916 election: Interference with its Allied trade would mean economic ruin for the U. S. The plan was dropped...
...caused new industries to spring up and others to be enlarged. . . . The balance of trade is so largely in our favor and will grow even larger if trade continues that we cannot demand payments in gold alone, without eventually exhausting the gold reserves of our best customers which would ruin their credit and stop their trade with...