Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolution if and only if the universally admired Gaston Doumergue can stay in power and force real reform on the Chamber of Deputies. Fear of another war is seriously hampering the recovery of French industry. Frenchmen are hoarding coin because they fear that war will close the banks, destroy industries...
...country in a provocative fashion. Unfortunately, he has done it in such a way as to discount his revelations immediately. Although Mr. Darrow has obviously gone beyond his province, it is difficult to realize why Mr. Roosevelt appointed him. In short, he has gone a long way to destroy helpful criticism in its effectiveness...
...pointed out that the cause of pressure groups is a desire to stabilize their condition in a changing world. The answer to these powerful, organized minorities, he said, is not to try to destroy them or suppress them but to establish a compensated economy which will in part remove the causes of their organization and particularly will remove the large groups of idle proletarians whose votes can be controlled either by bribery or enchainment...
Unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and the like, while necessary parts of the present system do not offer a final solution for in the last analysis they are regarded as charity and destroy the fellowship of moral equality that should exist between all members of the population. Now that no frontier exists some equivalent of a right to stake out a claim in virgin territory must be offered and this equivalent is work on public projects...
...little thought of harm. But not to be allowed the freedom of our green is indeed a trial not easily to be withstood. If we let cows come to our lawn, why not let the gentle pussy of the wood; why must we moderns always be so eager to destroy each sign of placid sanity in our hurried life? And why, oh, why, have we no thanks for the Gentle beast who thus did give her life for science...