Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular condition of the seminary during the latter part of Chauncey's presidency was critical and apparently hopeless. Its buildings were ruinous and almost irreparable, the President was aged and the number of scholars short of what they had been in former days. All its efficient funds did not amount to one thousand pounds; without a new building its situation was desperate. The political difficulties of the colony precluded any expectation of pecuniary aid from the General Court, who, in their best estate, had never been characterized by a disposition to give aid in money. The liberality of individuals...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government, which considers that if it can show definite tangible gains for Britain in lessened risk of war, in lessened taxes for keeping up the arms race, in getting Germany into a Western air pact and in inducing her to abandon her own ruinous war economy, the British voters would not turn it out of office...
...embezzled $251,000 from the bank's savings deposits, lost most of it in the stockmarket. A descendant of pioneer Vermont settlers, Banker Smith quickly reasoned that $250,000 would seem an almost astronomical figure to frugal Rutland depositors, that publication of the loss might cause a ruinous run on his bank. With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits. Consequently the bank pursued a serene, solvent course as did Banker Smith and the discharged bookkeeper. Later that year Banker Smith was elected Lieutenant Governor...
...already there are current among us movements hardly less ruinous, if they go unchecked, than those which on the continent have despoiled ancient universities of their most precious birth-right...
...that a childish interrogation? Instead of working out psychological puzzles, would not you be wiser to use the celebrated French logic and think it out? Isn't it obviously wiser for our two countries to get along together? Wouldn't it be ruinous for both to crash against each other on new battlefields? Isn't it logical that I would wish what is most advantageous for my country? And that which is most advantageous, isn't it obviously peace...