Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little claims he has always "been crazy about old Fords." This is the third one he has owned since coming to Harvard. He commuted in a 1925 model during his freshman year and last year discovered a '25 touring car going to ruin in the parking lot behind Winthrop House...
Actually Mr. Bowles does achieve some very fine mood creation in his descriptions of travels through the deserts from one squalid town to the next. Only when he allows his characters to become reflective does he ruin this mood...
...tickets are payable no later than 5 p.m. tomorrow which should ruin the day for more than...
...speaker saved Littauer from immediate ravage. The guest, after excusing himself as "unprepared for this unexpected situation," took out his speech and read. Its main thesis was that the CCA, if it was allowed to carry through one of its campaign promises to eliminate a particular grade crossing, would ruin the economy of East Cambridge. He explained the boundaries of East Cambridge, which include the Boston and Albany Railroad, the Drainage canal, another railroad and the Charles River, and showed how the proposed change would destroy the basis for the well-being of its citizens. The audience loudly agreed...
...August day Fairservis began to look for a place to camp, and spotted far in the distance what seemed to be a town. As his jeep-borne party headed toward the spot, more & more mud-brick buildings rose into view above the horizon. Shortly they stood before an imposing ruin whose walls surrounded an area of at least 30 square miles, whose buildings must have housed and served a population...