Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn, nearsighted little German with a genius for laboratory detection made an international sensation by announcing that he had isolated the thin, curved bacillus which causes tuberculosis. Eight years later he sent another thrill around the world by telling about a substance, tuberculin, which he thought would destroy the bacillus, cure its human victims. But black days were ahead. Despite the other bacteriological triumphs of this onetime country doctor, it saddened the rest of Robert Koch's life when his tuberculin not only failed to cure consumptives but killed a good many of them in the attempt...
...nationalist feeling to the full and making the most of the existing cultural affiliations with Germany, home of fellow Nordics. And as in Norway and elsewhere, the Nazis' biggest card will be the Social Democrats' sentimental worship of Democracy, regardless of the growth of those pledged, and likely, to destroy it forever. CASTOR...
...celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. On Armistice Eve the Irish Republican Army and the Laborites paraded and tiraded through Dublin streets to College Green. There they poured kerosene on two Union Jacks, brandished the blazing banners until only charred staves remained. Leaders howled at the crowd, "Destroy every poppy in Dublin tomorrow and burn every Union Jack and every emblem of British imperialism." They excoriated President Eamon de Valera for not having made it a crime to fly the British flag in Dublin on Armistice...
...wanting to take books out by the week. When the library is a mile away, there is some excuse for reserving books over a long period; but when it is just around the corner this excuse is entirely removed. On the other hand, the proposed policy would tend to destroy this great virtue of convenience, for the books of the library would no longer be always readily accessible, but many of them would be scattered to all parts of the building. With these books stripped from the shelves, the House library would become as disappointing a place as Widener, where...
...built work very well. But when technical advances make production outstrip the capacity to buy and it is useless to contend that they have not, capitalism cannot provide for the needs of this new economic society. Plan it, regulate it in any direction but semi-public utilities, and you destroy its internal harmony, you set loose productive forces whose sole control comes in collapse. The end is chaos in any case; in the United States our specious boom is already aggravated by the disposition of banks and credit agencies to remain stagnant, Mr. Ford has a natural prejudice against...