Word: spoiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutor's report to the head of his department would determine whether or not a student should remain within the system. Naturally if he held this fact over the head of his tutee, in order to make him do the required minimum of work, it would spoil the working of the system, and make Tutorial Students subject to the same sort of discipline as those outside...
...more, or we'll spoil all your fun. It is a perfectly safe prophesy that you'll be left quite out in the cold, socially or otherwise, this year if you haven't read "The Bedroom Companion...
...family seat near Munich, Dr. Hanfstaengl was attracted by Adolf Hitler at a time when the future Realmleader was often hounded by police. Repeatedly Hitler took refuge with the Hanfstaengls. After his rise to power, Dictator Hitler burdened Putzy with no great office the cares of which would spoil their evenings together, with Dr. Hanfstaengl at the piano and the often-exhausted Realmleader drinking in music and rest. Since much of his background is American, the Doktor functions, with great strain and effort, as the Nazi Party's spokesman to the English-speaking press. His troubles arise chiefly because...
...aggrieved lobbyists had already begun a serenade in Washington. Whether there had been some leak or whether they knew that tariff cuts were due them, the industries affected began to squeal. Lumbermen protested that they were being "sold down the river," dairymen that it would be a crime to spoil their "scientific" tariff. Cattlemen, Maine men (potatoes), maple syrup men joined in the chorus...
...would be impossible, however, to spoil completely so good a story as that of the career of Benjamin Thompson, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Subsequently a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. He was as quarrelsome as he was captivating, as erratic as he was able. He was first a Loyalist spy in the Colonies, then Under-Secretary of State in England, Minister of War in the court of Bavaria, founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the generally accredited discover of the theory that heat is a form of motion. He laid out the Englische Garten...