Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic Sea proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled the Battle of Jutland, the War's only fleet engagement, Jellicoe's reply has been that he did not lose the War, even though he failed to destroy the German Fleet because of poor communications and his unpreparedness for a night battle...
...Neither the cotton involved nor the warehouse receipts on it are instrumentalities of interstate commerce," cried Mr. Beck. "How would you draw a distinction?" demanded Justice Brandeis. "If the Government has the power to create an instrumentality, why hasn't it the power to say 'if you destroy or impair it, you will be punished...
...invention, he produced an incendiary bomb which military experts declared one of the world's deadliest. He war offered $140,000 for the formula. In Switzerland he attended a Group house party, was "changed." God, said he, and last week the Manhattan Groupers, had guided him to destroy the plans for the incendiary bomb...
...plaintiffs had described him as a "hard trader" who threatened to flood the market with Chrysler cars at cut-rate prices unless the stock-holders moderated their demands. During the negotiations Mr. Hutchinson was quoted as having snapped: "I am not going to buy what I can and will destroy...
...these days should still cling to the idea that anyone who believes in the government guiding to some extent the economic processes of the nation must necessarily hate business and all business men, must think that no man who wants to make money is honest, must be out to destroy all private initiative and enterprise...