Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the only remedy might be to use deadly hydrocyanic acid gas-a ticklish job necessitating careful preparations lest Congressmen and bystanders fall dead. Architect Lynn then persuaded the Department's Biological Survey officially to classify the starlings as pests. It is the duty of the Survey to destroy pests. So a gas attack on the Capitol was planned for some midnight this week...
...Senatorial wrath. Reiterating his charges of monopoly and ruin for small businesses, Senator Borah boomed. "When those things are remedied I will cease my efforts and not till then." And Mr. Nye cried eloquently: "Nero may rant and roar, but all the browbeating he may resort to will not destroy, though it may delay, knowledge of what NRA policy is doing ... to the end that the plunderbund may enjoy larger monopoly...
...interest* We are here because Mrs. Sanger in her nursing experience of 20 years became convinced that Birth Control was necessary for the welfare of women. . . . Race suicide talk is just as ridiculous as was that of those who said, when we women wanted the vote, that it would destroy the home...
...value is likely to start home again. Moreover foreigners uneasy about the future of their own money may send their capital to the U. S. Not only would this force France off the gold standard, force down the value of both franc and pound, but it would destroy every trade advantage that the U. S. has gained from the cheapening of the dollar in foreign exchange. Only way to prevent this is by buying sterling and francs as fast as those currencies are sold by Americans who want to bring their money home. Instead of allowing the hundreds of millions...
...will tax all his powers of statesmanship. If he cannot get some sort of guarantee from the Cuban government that the occupation of these properties will not be permanent he will find himself forced to choose between two highly disagreeable courses, for if he intervenes in Cuba he will destroy all the good will which he and Mr. Hull have been so carefully building up, and if he does not intervene he will put himself in the impossible position of refusing to protect the sanctity of English property in this hemisphere and preventing that country from doing it herself...