Word: ruinously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...
Though it was shameful for Abelard to have a mistress, it would have been ruinous to his career to marry. But to make amends to Fulbert he married Heloise secretly, trusted Fulbert to keep it dark. The shock of Abelard's betrayal had unsettled Fulbert's mind: when he boasted of his niece's marriage and she boldly denied it, he swore a terrible revenge. One night as Abelard slept hired bravos seized and gelded him. Now there was no longer any place for the arrogant Abelard; he who might have been a prince of the Church...
...wake of the boat a kite is often rigged to it and flown off the quarter. The fish are sighted when their fins and tails clip the water's surface. Technique then is to drag your bait before the fish. As in bass fishing, it is ruinous to try to set your hook at. the first strike or when the fish is pointed toward you (it would fly out of his mouth). Once hooked the game, resourceful broadbill will roll (to shake the hook from his soft mouth, if caught there), sound (dive straight for the bottom), double under...
...banks to put up $5,000,000 of capital, the R. F. C. to buy $20,000,000 of preferred stock, the new bank to take over 50% of the deposits and the liquid assets of the old banks. It struck Detroit's businessmen as ruinous to liquidate their two old banks, but they regarded the word from Washington as an ultimatum. They despatched a flight of telegrams in protest* and convened to obey. Meetings began. Alfred P. Sloan...
...whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes of the Iliad. And the Virgin Queen herself, in the midst of devious intriguing with a half-hostile, half amorous Europe, while cursing her courtiers and badgering her maids-in-waiting, could turn her hand to lyrics...