Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor Party puts forward instead of this ruinous policy of industrial war an inflexible demand for the nationalization of the mines which we shall drive home at the next election...
...When they are successful, minority rule is established, and the result is an extravagance on the part of the Government which is ruinous to the people, and a multiplicity of regulations and restrictions for the conduct of all kinds of necessary business, which becomes little less than oppressive...
...conciliatory policy toward Locarno and the League. Trembling with intensity and striking the desk before him with a frail clenched hand, he demanded the withdrawal of Germany's application for League membership and the abandonment of the Locarno Pacts: "Beware! Oh, beware! The Government's ruinous policy is leading us straight into complete dependence upon France...
...most colossal and ruinous social sin that afflicts mankind: it is utterly and irremediably unchristian; in its total method and effect it means everything that Jesus did not mean and it means nothing that He did mean; it is a more blatant denial of every Christian doctrine about God and man than all the theoretical atheists on earth ever could devise...
...boys," contending that the gentle influence of woman during a young hearty's formative years robbed him of his proper British hardihood, made him a "softie." Last year, Novelist H. G. Wells backed up this contention by notifying the U. S. that "coeducation in American universities is ruinous to youth and is 'sissifying...