Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Depth and the letdown following the Yale meet proved the ruin of the Crimson. Jed Fitzgerald, the next harrier after Benjamin, finished twentieth, and other disappointments followed. Coach Bill McCurdy noted Thursday that "if one of our top five goes, the whole meet goes." Yesterday, the whole team caved in, although their 135-138 loss to fourth-place Brown was not as bad as it could have been...
Knowledge without feeling is not knowledge and leads only to "public irresponsibility and indifference, and conceivably to ruin," MacLeish asserted...
...duck hunters, 1958 will not be as good as 1957. It will still be a good year. After an early hatch because of unseasonably warm weather, drought struck the potholes. The number of breeding places dropped from 10 million to 4,500,000, threatening ruin. What saved the season was the cooperative conservation practices of Canada and the U.S., and of the privately run Ducks Unlimited (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944), which alone raised $6,750,000, built 714 small dams and flooded 530 breeding marshes. Re-nesting ducks flocked to the areas, were able to start a second clutch...
...that made Service a millionaire w'ooed none of the nine Muses. They reek of male shenanigans and sweat, roar like a Yukon avalanche, teem with rude and lusty characters: Claw-Fingered Kitty, Chewed-Ear Jenkins. Muck-Luck Mag, Blasphemous Bill Mackie. Dangerous Dan McGrew. "Rhyming has my ruin been," Robert Service once wrote, falling unconsciously into the balladeer's inversion. "With less deftness I might have produced real poetry...
Ever since tear-spouting Premier Mohammed Mossadegh brought his country close to economic ruin in 1951 by nationalizing its oil industry,* Iran has been trying to import as much foreign money and knowledge as possible. Thanks to the Western-minded Shah, Iranian law now offers solid safeguards to foreign investors. The question, after what happened in neighboring Iraq, is whether the politically discontent will wait for long-range economic benefits. Wall Street is making an impressive bet on Iran's peaceful future...