Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those polished but weary captains of metropolitan industry who is on the eve of eloping with a reluctant secretary just after making miserable the corporate existence of a vague South American Republic through the calculated failure of a rival bank. Naturally any number of unsuspected people are out to destroy the polite and powerful arch-criminal from the start of the piece, and this in itself is enough to furnish adequate excitement for three acts. The role in question is exceedingly well played by Mr. Francis Compton, possibly the least amateurish of the cast in this particular play. Fortunately, there...
...Imperial Japanese Army, which strives to uphold the rights of the masses on the basis of righteousness, will under no circumstances recognize Chang Hsueh-liang or the authority of his provisional government at Chinchow. The army is now compelled to resort to positive action to destroy his base...
Delegates to the conference heard Secretary Frederick Luke Wiseman of the Home Mission Department, Wesleyan Methodist Church report on increased Methodist membership in Great Britain and Ireland. "Communists," he said, "have been converted and are now preaching the gospel they sought to destroy, which is a further indication of Methodist progress." He pointed also to progress in the movement for union of all the branches of Methodism in England. Delegates applauded loudly when Bishop John Monroe Moore of Dallas, Tex., said that the Northern and Southern branches in the U. S. "cannot be kept apart much longer. . . . The causes...
...social entity, the place of the college paper is in the world as well as in the college. It must take its small place in a long and honorable tradition of courageous service. It must base its claim to existence on the unbiased direction of the human will to destroy, not to create prejudice and fear. By this only can the elements of improvement and contrast enter into society. The college paper in its small way must accept this responsibility inherent in the written word...
...prime of life to the human scrap heap and that knows no remedy for the situation other than a reduction in the standard of living? I warn the people who are exploiting the workers that they can only drive them so far before they will turn on them and destroy them! They are taking no account of the history of nations in which governments have been overturned. Revolutions grow out of the depths oj hunger...