Word: wreak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany is fighting for a system which will put her back on her feet with the consent of a majority of her people. She may be basing her struggle on wrong premises as William Jennings Bryan once did. Like his silver conceptions, Germany's military views may wreak harm on others, but ahead of her lies the one purpose of regaining her pedestal in the world. As long as she keeps her experiments within her borders, it is no concern of this or any other country. But the moment her policies endanger the life and happiness of others, it becomes...
...Politicians, Teachers, and Schoolbooks" are surveyed with a practised eye by P. A. Knowlton, the editor of the Educational department of the MacMillan Company. Citing the havoc which politicians, the public, and teachers themselves wreak upon schoolbooks by false economy and attempts to make texts conform to local or professional prejudices, Mr. Knowiton suggests very convincingly the need for a reform of his evil which has been a part of free education since its inception...
...limp and resigned like a prone eggshell) Yes, I will. My God, why must you men wreak this savage destruction...
...principle of Mr. Ickes' plan is a disastrous principle; happily it will only be applied in Chopinesque diminuendo, and can wreak no harm. It may even be hooted away before the dreary game of platting has begun, so that the 200 need never set out through the mud. But within the lineaments of this small gimcrack may be discerned what is a very real and very large deficiency in the National Recovery Administration--its distressing lack of coordination, its undeniable muscular ague. Banking recovery has lagged so far behind industrial stimulus as to produce a dangerous gap in credit...
...loveliest sages of modern Harvard is that involving the selection of the Lowell House coat of arms, and Mr. Coolidge's perturbation when he was informed that his House sailed beneath a spinster's colors. Perhaps this is not so. But Professor Morison, whatever he may wreak upon windows or upon letterheads, ought not to profane it. Clearly it has that large glamor of the grotesque which comes only too infrequently and which is over to be cherished...