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Word: ruining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This sort of large-scale jamming, however, would ruin domestic communication. So well is this recognized, and so indispensable is radio considered as a medium for domestic communication, maintaining morale, that some powers last week were making other arrangements for maintaining domestic radio communication under outside radio fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Battlefield | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...slump, were last week in a mood to let events take their course in order to tell Congress afterwards "I told you so." If there is no slump-the shoe will be on the other foot. Rather than sit back and tell the country to watch Congress ruin it, New Dealers may yet decide to go their own way and claim credit for saving business from the fate to which they claim Congress has doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: New Experiment | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...panic of 1893 financial ruin struck the Willkies and a few years later Elwood's natural gas, prodigally wasted, played out. By the time "Wen" Willkie and his three brothers were in long pants they found plenty of work in summer moving abandoned Elwood houses into the country to be used as outbuildings for farmers. Their home was a sort of perpetual debating society. They kept more than 6,000 books around the house and old Herman Willkie, back at his law practice harder than ever, woke his children in the mornings by shouting quotations from the classics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Indiana Advocate | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...casualties in China at 1,000,000, some 940,000 more than is admitted officially by the Japanese. In another 15,000-word address the Generalissimo begged the Japanese people to "awake from a publicity-induced stupor under militaristic supervision and save themselves from mad aggression leading to certain ruin and destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Third Year | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Most of Things to Come is representational music. Its movements (with titles like "Attack," "Pestilence," "World in Ruin") describe a future world war and its aftermath. But to critics some of the Things appeared to have come out of the musical past rather than the future. They were reminded of England's late Composer Edward Elgar. Composer Bliss could not have been offended. His own estimate of his score: "It's all right on the surface. . . . It's dramatic, but it has little depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bliss and Things | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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