Word: shatterly
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...conditions as these. Germany and England, in a considerably worse situation, have to some extent relieved their wretched workers and controlled the employers. This nation has allowed its industrial difficulties to become so acute that a peaceable solution of them seems almost hopeless. Meanwhile the government has continued to shatter public confidence by frittering its time in partisan and inconsequential bickering. If tragic outbreaks are to be avoided, Congress must drop its petty electioneering and turn serious thoughts toward removing the worker from his frightful predicament...
...standing army of Japan numbers about 230,000 men, although in time of need 2,000,000 could be enrolled. The Japanese General Staff has spent many years studying the military situation in China and with the most deadly infantry in the world Japan can shatter any Chinese defense. The Japanese are skilled in oversea expeditions and their facility in handling all the automatic machinery of war employed in the West gives her a great advantage over China whose only strong point is great passive resistance. The forces of Japan are directed and coordinated from the War Office in Tokyo...
...group of spectators as has gathered about the pole-vault standards at the end of the Stadium track in some time, last Saturday gave its applause to a world-record-breaking performance when Keith Brown, Andover star, cleared the bar at 13 ft. 4 5-8 in. to shatter the schoolboy mark set in 1930 by Wonsowitz of Froebel High, Gary, Indiana...
...present the Schweitzer factory is idling along, turning out only enough wrappers to satisfy the curiosity or needs of small cigaret manufacturers. But the plant is so geared that at a moment's notice it can be whipped into quantity production, to shatter the French monopoly...
...would like to warn my fellow students who park their cars in the vicinity of the University to be sure that they leave no valuables in them. Last Thursday between the hours of 9 A. M. and 1 P. M. the shatter-proof glass on my car was broken and an attempt was made to steal the car. Although the thief was unable to move the machine he did succeed in stealing a brand new topcoat that I had locked up in my sedan before going to my first class of the morning. I am sending this letter...