Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second expedition will be in charge of D. S. Byers '25. It will excavate the ruins in a great cave on the Chinle valley near the Utah-Arizona line, formerly called Waterfall Ruin. The cave is thought to contain rubbish and ruins of cultures paralleling those that are represented by the Alkali Ridge sites. It is hoped that the results of the work will clarify the problem presented by the Ridge, and throw further light on some of the earlier cultures of the region, since the dry rubbish is known to contain perishable material not preserved in open sites...
...Inflation once started feeds upon itself and soon gets completely out of control. . . . This bill may well constitute the first step on the road to ruin. ... It is unthinkable that there should be vested in any individual the arbitrary power to alter at will the value of money. . . . Prices may rise, but they will rise as a result of fear not of confidence, and no permanent prosperity can be erected on any such base...
...Jeremiah in a Republican wilderness, Secretary Hull long predicted ruin and woe from G.O. Policies on tariff and foreign affairs. Again & again he harped: "The practice of the half-insane policy of economic isolation during the past ten years by America and the world is the largest single underlying cause of the world panic. The mad pursuit of economic nationalism has proved disastrous...
...American people go to no trouble to inform themselves. We must place under their eyes some simple truths. ... An American may honestly ruin his best friend just to prove he is the stronger, then offer him his hand and help him to arise. Friendship has nothing to do with business. . . . The American people are ignorant of their own history. They must not be expected to know French history...
...head in his hands. On trial, he admitted he was Polashchuk. He admitted Konar-Polash-chuk had been selling out Russia to Poland for 13 years. He admitted his "brother" was a brother-agent. He admitted he had deliberately mismanaged grain collections to lower the grain supply and ruin peasants. The Ogpu council members looked silently at one another. They did not even leave the courtroom to pass sentence. Certain of the justice of this one perfect execution they marched him outside and shot him at once. Later on the same day the other 34, whose crimes were more debatable...