Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only tough old John Quincy Adams had gone out of the Presidency so thoroughly unpopular. Hoover had labored mightily, with a stubborn and inflexible conviction in the Tightness of his course, only to see his work go down in public ruin. And no U. S. politician except Adams, calmly stepping back to the House of Representatives to make his experience count, had recovered in political or human terms from the consequences of such a defeat...
Unions like this one do more than wreak havoc in their own particular industries; they besmirch the name of the entire labor movement. If allowed to go on as they are now, they will ultimately work their own destruction, but in the debacle they may ruin the drama as an art. Playwright and flyman alike have a heavy stake in cleaning up the mess...
...Ferdinand was supplemented under King Carol II by another measure calculated to consolidate the economic independence of the new landowners. Through the conversion of agricultural debts, the peasants' indebtedness was reduced by more than half, which saved thousands of small holdings from foreclosure and many rural families from ruin...
...Artillery shells which would cause the enemy to ruin its own guns. The shells, calibrated to the enemy's gun-sizes, would be filled with thermite, a well-known incendiary substance which burns at 3,000°C., and temptingly abandoned. When the enemy tried to fire the shells, the thermite would ignite, ruin the guns...
MOSCOW--Negotiations on Russia's military and territorial demands against Finland came to a "definite end" tonight when the Finnish mission left for Helsinki and the Soviet press warned angrily that Finland is "on the brink of ruin...