Word: spoiling
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Quietly and politely, Mr. May proceeded to spoil completely the happy satisfaction which had been glowing in the face of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. since his comparatively triumphant appearance before the Committee last fortnight (TIME, May 11). From that gentleman farmer's prepared statement, Mr. May quoted a paragraph asserting that under present law, U. S. corporations would this year withhold from stockholders more than $4,500,000,000 of income, thus depriving the Treasury of some $1,300,.000,000 which it would receive in individual income taxes if that sum were distributed as dividends...
Justices Stone, Brandeis and Cardozo held that SEC's rule was "wisely conceived and lawfully adopted to spoil the plans of those intent upon obscuring or suppressing the acknowledgment of their knavery...
...soon generally considered the Queen's lover. According to Thompson, there was nothing in that, but he was certainly one of Elizabeth's favorites. He soon had enough capital to go, like Drake, into piracy on a large scale. Unlike Drake, however, who tried merely to spoil the Spaniards, Ralegh had colonizing ambitions. His most famed colony, on which he never set foot, was Virginia. Thence he imported and did his best to popularize smoking tobacco. (Biographer Thompson sets down as apocryphal the story of Ralegh's alarmed servant, who seeing smoke coming from his" master...
Officially in Moscow this week Young Communist headquarters summed up against pampered Stuck-Up Stakhanovites: "It is high time to deal drastically with the vulgar and servile people who corrupt and spoil our glorious noble youth...
Since that time Harvard and Cornell have met 11 times, Cornell winning only once. That was in 1915, Eddie Mahan's year, when they won 10 to 0, to beat an undefeated Crimson eleven and spoil an unblemished, three year record of All-American halfback Mahan...