Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intoxicating liquors to a moderate degree, yet their lives are not what they would be were they total abstainers: Strong drinks are in themselves hurtful, and lead to other associaions, the most important of which is gambling. Also they are apt to be mixed with poisonous adulterations which graduall ruin the system. In conclusion Dr. Peabody said: You are all in the way of peril and temptation. Do your utmost to shun it and make it your life purpose in all things to choose the better course that you may be fully prepared for service when...
...hands of unreasonable and irrational men, who by their immoderate methods, turned away observing men. They taught that without total abstinence was the greatest peril but if we approach the subject more carefully we shall see that a man may take a glass of liquor without absolute ruin; but, on the other hand, we shall see that there is a growing consensus of opinion pointing to absolute temperance, and that to succeed in life a man must follow in this opinion. In the speaker's college days men considered it necessary to take stimulants in order to become strong...
...printed in the Globe yesterday are no doubt very pleasant and encouraging to all Harvard men. But at the same time they must be swallowed cum grano salis. It will not do to trust too much to such prognostications: they are generally false ones. Over-confidence is often the ruin of a really good athlete, and so we trust that the efforts of no candidate for the Mott Haven team will be slackened through too much faith in newspaper reports. Harvard must strain every nerve to win that cup this year. and she must not be allowed to lose through...
...remarkable "Moon Fragment" will be recalled by readers of the Monthly, gives increased evidence of his imaginative faculty and of his literary power in "The Fire-Maiden." The story of how a young student becomes interested in Socialism, then implicated in its worst form, and draws down in his ruin a noble but deluded woman, is in itself extraordinarily well done. But when we add to this the extraordinary turn which the narration takes in the course of the doctor's tale, in which we learn how the two victims of the infernal plot become also the victims...
...LONDON, June 19. - The two crews after a three-hour ride arrived at New London at three o'clock, Saturday. There they found the craft named "Cecile," a mixture of boat, steamer and ruin, waiting to carry them five miles up river to the quarters. The three large shells and numerous small ones were hastily put aboard the boat and all was ready in an hour, when it was advised that the baggage be also put aboard. On examination it was found that the trunks and valises had all gone across the river on the ferry, and so the "Cecile...