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Word: ruinous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoy it. Varsity Athletics, on the other hand, in any sport, are for those who desire to acquire skill through a great deal of practice, training, and personal effort. That there are these two schools of Athletic thought in the college, cannot be denied. To mix them would be ruinous. Cyrns C. Marden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...intercoastal steamship trade is a roughhouse, cutthroat business. Its brawling history has been marked alternately by ruinous rate wars and periods of comparative calm in which shippers between Atlantic and Pacific ports of the U. S. have banded together in voluntary associations to keep cargo rates profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cutthroat | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...loss of no other city or area could be as ruinous to the Spanish Republic's fate as Barcelona's. Spain's most important seaport, its industrial mainspring, its metropolis, Barcelona in Rebel hands would probably lead directly to the conquest of the rest of Loyalist Catalonia, a wiping out of the Madrid-Valencia area, the ultimate victory of Fascism in Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Last Ditch | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

When will critics learn how ruinous are these single standard, monistic systems of criticism clamped down on art? It is a bad day for poetry when as powerful and as ordinarily valuable a magazine as TIME gets into that line. It will promote careful mediocrities but not many poets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Court. Last fortnight utility lawyers concluded a last-ditch attempt to get the currently New Dealish Supreme Court to reverse the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga"-the opinion of a three-judge Federal Court this year that since TVA power sales are legal, utilities have no legal relief even from ruinous TVA competition. Last week from the death-house came a highly articulate croak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Brutal Doctrine | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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