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...Last night the most ruinous fire since the foundation of the College visited Harvard. It was a cold, wintry night, when about midnight we were awakened by the cry of-'Fire'. Harvard Hall, 42 feet wide, 97 feet long, and four stories high, built in 1672 was in flames...
When the elimination of parking was discussed in committee, merchants in the "loop" area declared such a step would be ruinous to trade, adding that from twenty-five to as much as fifty per cent of their business came from motorists who parked in the "loop" in front of or adjacent to their shops...
...that the coffee exchanges of Santos and Rio de Janeiro would suspend trading '"indefinitely." Came urgent messages from President Luis. The exchanges reopened. Frenzied coffee speculators begged the President to save the coffee situation by declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market on his own slight shoulders...
...allotment to France, Belgium and Italy of nearly all the sums "unconditionally" pledged by Germany "in kind" (i.e., in commodities like coal) for the next ten years, whereas Mr. Snowden wanted them stopped at once, believing that they constitute "dumping" and are ruinous to Britain's depressed trade...
...soup or dessert, Châateau Yquem always with dessert. As to preparing wines for the table, white vintages should be well iced in bottle; but red wines ought to be decanted some hours before serving, placed in the dining room, and allowed gradually to assume its temperature. Absolutely ruinous to the bouquet of any wine, according to Mr. Reeves-Smith, is the awful vandalism of "taking the chill off" by setting the dacanter in hot water. A simple brandy of the finer sort is today the only liqueur taken by smart males and connoisseurs, in the experience...