Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belong to any of these nationalistic societies. My only affiliations are with my local Grange for purely social reasons. Nor am I of these people who believe Communists lurk behind every bush waiting to destroy the government...
...Resemblance to natural objects, while it does not necessarily destroy these esthetic values, may easily adulterate their purity. Therefore since resemblance to nature is at best superfluous and at worst distracting, it might as well be eliminated...
...behalf of a broad-gauge contest for freedom of the press as guaranteed under the First Amendment. Lawyer Deutsch was permitted to take several months off, browse along his own path in Northern and European libraries. Setting up the thesis that the power to tax was the power to destroy, the Deutsch brief quoted the late great Justice Holmes's observation that "a page of history was worth a volume of logic," traced the sorry history of newspaper taxation. He began in 1644 with John Milton's Areopagitica-A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, caught Queen...
...might irreparably damage the economic structure," Mr. Morgan admitted judiciously. "It might do away with the leisure class, and if you destroy the leisure class, you destroy civilization. Civilizations have died before. They have come back. How great the damage would be, I've never been able to decide...
...minds of some, preparation for marriage too often is associated with the physical aspect of sex, whereas the philosophical and spiritual considerations are equally important. All three should develop together in the mind of the child. Erroneous [is the] belief that knowing the facts of life would destroy the innocence of their children. Certainly ignorance is a flimsy guaranty of innocence. Accurate knowledge can provide a much firmer foundation for a wholesome attitude toward life...