Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first outstanding speech in nine years in the Senate, admitted that the U. S. might well forget neutrality to "track Hitler down and hang him to a sour apple tree." But he warned that this hunt would cost millions of lives, while Hitler might have died a natural death meanwhile...
...Summers are all right . . . but winters-thirty-five below! Drifts twenty feet deep! A man can freeze to death up here as easy as holding out his hand. . . ." Act III-"People were up all night. You could hear 'em coughing...
Blitzkrieg, 72-hour shock, or heartbreaking drawn-out death struggle, who would...
...Ithaca, N. Y., death from malnutrition came to Caesar, baby porcupine, born by Caesarean operation performed last June by a State Conservation Department official after his automobile had killed the pregnant mother...
Transcendentalists complained that he was too practical ("Strictly speaking," said Henry, "morality is not healthy"). Religious folk called him an infidel ("One world at a time," said Thoreau when a friend came to his death bed to talk about the next world). "Practical men" called him a dreamer and escapist, were annoyed at his criticism of their pioneering ("a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys...