Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dockwrath was a sly, vindictive man. He was also a shrewd country lawyer. When he was kicked out of Orley he retorted by digging into an old trunk and producing a couple of legal documents that threatened ruin to Lady Mason and her impetuous...
...poor to drill a well of his own, feared that all the water under his land would be drained off by his neighbor's well, that the meager springs on his own plot would dry up. For days, he brooded. Then he decided on a plan to ruin Psofios...
...hold up its head if the university next door has a school of animal husbandry and it has none . . . Although this kind of comparison is doubtless better for the universities than appraising them in terms of their football scores, its educational consequence is mediocrity and its financial consequence is ruin. Inertia and vanity are luxuries that endowed universities can no longer afford...
...other college, enjoying a pleasant green among a group of pleasant buildings, would leave it that way. We hasten to ruin it with a coca-cola bottling plant...
...that it indicates in concrete terms the manner in which this essentially parasitic institution, Radcliffe, has been the cause of a trend toward a college in which the individual is of no importance. It is high time that something be done about this tendency, which will be the ruin of what little prestige Harvard has left. John S. Melloy '51 Robert G. Dederick...