Word: crushingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tomarkin and his fellow scientists would seem to have a thankless task on their hands in striving to find means with which to prolong life and crush out sickness and disease. As human nature apparently stands at present, each person who is saved today from the ravages of consumption and pneumonia is one more to serve tomorrow as a target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student...
Stokes fighting with back to wall . . . prepared like Samson, to bring down the very temple of his own home, if beneath the ruins, he can crush the woman who bore him two children and was then tossed away like worm-eaten fruit...
...crush of immigrants which has lately rushed upon New York and Boston brings to light once more the bad features of the existing quota regulations, plus a new quirk. Secretary of Labor Davis has allowed to land from three to four thousand newly arrived foreigners in excess of the established quota. Although he is apparently within his legal rights. European governments will almost certainly take this as a frank confession that the present law is not living up to the expectations of its framers. This is a sharp break in the prevailing immigration policy, and the first question foreign governments...
...troops to General Müller, Reichswehr Commander in Saxony, and instructions to restore and preserve constitutional conditions in the Free State. These orders were transmitted by General Müller to the people and to the Government. The position appeared to be that the Berlin Government intended to crush a revolt by Communist Saxony with the utmost severity in order thereby to please monarchist Bavaria...
...perennial interest which is manifested in all attempts at true spiritualism, in face of thousands of false alarms such as this seems to indicate some basic truth. Even the juggernaut of science cannot crush man's propensity to be metaphysical, for hope is as much a part of human nature as is trickery. Then, too, the presence of such sincere men as Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge in the field has added an air of genuineness to the discussions. Perhaps the very philosophy of William James gives the answer to the problem. All that is necessary is "the Will...