Word: shattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussing the question of England's entrance into the war, we are again forced to shatter many popular illusions. England and France both knew that Germany was coming through Belgium, and the English even tried to get the consent of Belgium to the landing of her troops there as soon as the war might break out. Germany's violation of Belgian neutrality was merely a convenient pretext by means of which Viscount Grey could save his face, and make England's participation in the war seem to ensue from entirely chivalric motives. Moreover, Grey had pledged England to support France...
...comes a blow that helps shake the cobwebs from our brains, shatter the illusions that clouded our reason, and adroitly puts to flight the false hopes we fostered for the future of athletics. Football is to become an even larger source of revenue for great universities, a more important factor in the commercial life of institutions for the development of 'educated men' and leaves still farther behind its career as a great game, when played for sport, before tainted with professionalism...
Planetary Collisions. Colonel John Millis, retired Army engineer, expounded a new theory of planetary formation, including the proposition that collisions of large heavenly bodies shatter off fragments (such as Earth), which thereafter whirl around their coalesced parents as satellites...
...hope is short-lived. Further details of the dispatch shatter the illusion, Yale authorities have relinquished nothing of their right to require attendance at chapel services, although to many students they are bound to mean nothing or even less than nothing. Battell Chapel is too small to accommodate the entire assemblage of students. The upperclassmen, therefore, are to be divided and will take their religious instruction in two shifts on alternate days. This is all there is to Yale's apparent change of heart...
What Sir Josiah Stamp*- forthe semi-bald one was he-meant was, that the U. S., which is more interested in German reparation than any nation in the world (the U. S. is the world's greatest creditor), should shatter her tariff wall and assist the depressed European nations to increase their exports. But, above all, creditor nations under the Experts' Plan should not press for German payments quicker than that trade policy permits. Further, he warned that creditor nations, including the U. S., might have to curtail production if the Plan is to succeed...