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...naval fire, as Falmouth in the Maine District was set ablaze last year and Norfolk, Virginia, was burned down in January. If New York citizens were less notably Loyalist (an estimated two-thirds of the city is owned by Tories), Howe's gunners could reduce the city to ruin...
...think myself equal to the command I am honored with ... From the day I enter upon the command of the American armies, I date my fall and the ruin of my reputation...
...dealing day unmatched in baseball history. The implications were enormous and the reaction violent. Successful legal attacks on baseball's reserve clause, which binds players to teams, were now proved to have precisely the most feared consequences: rich teams would buy the stars and ruin competition in the sport...
...Baptists grew together early in the 19th century only to be shattered by the fight over slavery. Church authorities declared in 1845 that no slave owner should be permitted to serve as a Baptist missionary, so the Southern Baptists seceded and organized their own convention. The Civil War brought ruin to many of them. Northern preachers demanded loyalty oaths from their defeated brethren, and many Southerners headed West, carrying Scriptures in their saddlebags and baptizing new converts in the creeks and cow ponds of the prairies. Out of the hellfire tradition of revival-tent meetings grew an uglier tradition...
...changes that have come about or are now being planned by Rosovsky--like the budget cuts and a new emphasis on teaching--are the products of persuasion, not top-down commands. Kaufmann says that "a senior faculty can ruin a dean of the Faculty," and other administrators agree that their role is advice and service and possibly even leadership but certainly not conflict. The faculty and its administrators seem to have an unspoken agreement which is, on the faculty's side: "Do what is necessary to change us in accord with external imperatives, but keep our basic power and structure...