Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uneven course of their romance does net require Miss Clarke to function as target for Cagney's grapefruit throwing, as she did in Public Enemy, but the affair is at least brightly controversial. When Johnny catches the ward leader and his fiancee's boss trying to destroy evidence he has collected to show that both of them are grafters, the result is the most satisfying foot-&-fist work shown...
...Broadway season and just the sort that any actress would give her false eyelashes to play, ends act II of The Wingless Victory and, in the opinion of most professional observers, in effect prematurely ends the play. How Oparre is made first to leave intolerant Salem, and then to destroy herself and her two half-breed children, is a story which has no surprises for those familiar with the Medea legend, or even readers of Joseph Hergesheimer's almost identical narrative, Java Head (1919). An eager minority of the play's first audience impulsively applauded the more ringing...
...capable, Republican hands of Dr. George Loring Tobey Jr., a fashionable and crackerjack Boston ear, nose & throat specialist. He also had a graver affliction, septic sore throat, and there was danger that the Streptococcus haemolyticus might get into his blood stream. Once there the germs might destroy the red cells in his blood. In such a situation, a rich and robust Harvard crewman is no safer from death than anybody else...
...acetylamino-1-hydroxynaphthalene 3.6-disulfonic acid. All doctors fear new drugs derived from coal tar. They may exhibit unexpected deadliness. In the case of Prontosil, since like dinitrophenol it affects the production of white blood cells, it comes under the medical rule of thumb: what ever stimulates may also destroy. And it may be that the new drug by which Dr. Tobey cured Franklin Roosevelt Jr.'s septic sore throat may have exhausted the young man's reserve of white blood cells to be used against some other infection...
...Saturdays. These meetings will deal with the week's reading and answer questions of a general nature. It is to the credit of Professor Matthiessen that he disdains frequent quizzes and hour exams, for though they might raise the level of future knowledge in the course, they would destroy the freedom now offered to the student. The purpose of the Saturday classes, then, is not to discipline a man's work, but to better his grasp of the subject. In no manner compulsory, they are to be managed by the two capable assistants in English...