Word: disruption
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second Yard. In order to strengthen then this idea the Council advanced a plan of its own for the new building program. But this could only be a corollary to the project of the Yard, and as long as the new Houses are not arranged so as to disrupt the area entirely as an entity the undergraduate plea will be answered. If the idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista at its exact reproduction. As long as the site...
...When the will was read, the startling disclosure came. He had been a moneylender. Anonymously, it is true, but a moneylender nonetheless. As if that were not surprise enough, the will-reading ceremony brought out a twist in the Major's character, which threatened to disrupt all. A condition of the will: to his daughter Lillian Luttrell he leaves the fortune, providing she marries Samuel Levi, his associate moneylender. Should she refuse to marry Levi, the fortune goes to Levi. Should he refuse to marry her, the fortune goes to her. Knowing not her father's partner...
...retort, employers construed goodwill as a form of Property. When labor organizers disrupt the relations between workers and employers, are they not destroying goodwill? "The most important right is the right of use, for without use, property may be valueless," said Col. James Augustan Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers. "This bill would say to industry: 'You can protect your plants and your physical property, but you cannot protect the use thereof...
Belgrade is a natural fortress, a high place from which to rule, a snug capital round which the mighty Danube bends. Last week he who rules at Belgrade was wrestling with the forces tending to disrupt his realm. He, Alexander I, is a king in name but a little emperor in fact. His people are of a myriad races and sects, including the Mohammedan. Last week His Majesty faced an especially disheartening cabinet crisis...
...pokes things derogatorily with a cane, the world is indeed too small. For him is such a trip designed. But before he and all his ilk can be bundled with the necessary changes of linen into a gargantuan rocket, the contention that so many foreign bodies in space might disrupt the delicately balanced celestial system, must be treated with gravity. Perhaps it is best that Professor Condit should first blaze the trail. Even if others may not immediately follow, it is entirely possible that he may, first Lindbergh like, improve American Venereal relations beyond the wildest claims of companionate marriage...