Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...hard to imagine that a person really interested in hydrography would do better to choose to spend his time alone in a boat. But it will not take a real scientist long to make the discovery, and when he does, sooner or later, he is sure to wreck those bridges, though he may have to resort to sabotage to do it. MERRITT Y. HUGHES...
Cornell must keep her weather eye on the fluctuations of undergraduate sentiment, so that she may bring the Honor System in on a tide so strong that no undercurrents can wreck its course. --Cornell...
...would seem the part of wisdom, as well as discretion, to recognize that both will persist, and that, in fact, their fields of endeavor do not overlap. The moving picture, able to change the scene, or setting of the action in an instant, so that everything, the ship-wreck, the escape by aeroplane, the hanging of the villain, all take place before our very eyes, is undeniably the most effective means of presenting those stories of action which depend for their chief interest on the interplay of incident. To put William S. Hart on the stage and confine him almost...