Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading philosophers and men of letters in China today, said that the Harvard scroll is one of the few fragments of a Dharani Sutra, printed in 975 and deposited in the cavities made in the bricks that were used to build the Red Pagoda. When the Pagoda fall to ruin in 1924 a few copies were found still in fairly good condition despite nearly ten centuries of burial. The fragment is about three feet long, and two feet wide, or approximately one-half its original length...
...booths of concessionaires. A 13-year-old boy was caught by police lugging off two huge bones of a prehistoric monster, to feed to his dog. Recurring showers of bottles from the 64-story Skyride Tower grew so alarming that the elevators were finally stopped. Dancing feet stomped into ruin landscaped lawns. Into Lake Michigan went benches and tables, and when policemen sought to admonish the revelers, they tossed the policemen in, too. All through the night until dawn ambulances screamed through the grounds, carrying more than 100 victims of good-natured rowdyism to hospitals. If the Fair had opened...
...nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam to send troops into San Francisco, he replied that it would ruin him politically. One by one the potent Young backers agreed to switch their strength in the primary to Merriam. Not until he had corralled most of the Young following did Acting Governor Merriam order his militia...
...jurisdiction over refined oil as well as crude. The swaggering individualists of East Texas have learned that heating their nonquota oil placed it in the classification of semi-refined and hence out of the Commission's reach. The new law becomes effective Dec. 25. Hoping that this will ruin Christmas for all Texas hot oil experts, the oil industry last week was talking of pacts between the oil States to supplant ineffectual Federal control of interstate...
...advocates of devaluation would lead the franc to zero. They would ruin all France and finally ruin that famous French woolen stocking that people abroad sometimes laugh at because they are envious of it. Perhaps someone will say to me that the currency, once devalued, can be restored again. That is impossible when it no longer has any value. You cannot bring the dead back to life...