Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years have passed, the work in our shops has become finer and has called for an increasing amount of ... fine coordination between hand and brain. . . . 'Any use of alcohol at all seems to destroy that exact coordination. . . . We rarely have to discharge the drinkers. They discharge themselves?a man will not stick at a job on which he is falling down...
...island to pedlers, whose sales aggregated $100,000 weekly. A few days before these arrests the police discovered the ring's arsenal-guns and other murderous .instruments in an apartment two blocks from sociologically famed Henry Street Settlement in the lower East Side. The weapons were used to destroy poachers who sneaked into allotted narcotic districts...
...Burn, Bomb, Destroy!" Almost apologetically the U. S. Agent before the Mixed Claims Commission, grizzled Robert Williams Bonynge, Manhattan lawyer, Harding appointee, charged last week that in 1915-16, when the U. S. and Germany were still at peace, the Imperial Government sent over secret agents who committed sabotage throughout the U. S., hired Negroes to infect horses with anthrax germs in New York City, Newport News (Va.), and Baltimore, hired other Negroes to touch off such mighty munitions explosions as New Jersey's famed Black Tom blast...
...directly from Section Three B of the General Staff early in 1915 with $500,000 to finance sabotage activities [in the U. S.]. In an affidavit from the British Admiral, Sir Reginald Hall, who intercepted von Rintelen's instructions, we learn that he was told to 'burn, bomb and destroy...
...Lewis Stone, Guy Bates Post once took part?did not find Arthur Hammerstein's florid musical adaptation, Luana, as successful entertainment as its progenitor. Tediously faithful to the original plot in which a princess of the Sandwich Islands marries a young U. S. doctor, only to lose him and destroy herself in a volcano as a sacrifice to her people, Producer Hammerstein has given his show an exceedingly dull and majestic pace...