Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Implicit Threat. Hitler tried to stamp it out. Franco has suppressed it. The Soviet Union, seeing it as a creed of the bourgeoisie (which in fact it is), has done its best to destroy every vestige of it. To authoritarianism, Masonry has always been an implicit threat...
America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). From London. "Does the Socialist State Tend to Destroy Individual Initiative...
...deadpan claim to have split the atom singlehanded in 1929. He carries about with him the results of his experiments, a few dark-colored grains that look something like Sen-Sen. "This stuff could ignite the atom and send it off," he remarks casually. "It's enough to destroy the little globe called the universe." Dunninger wanted to share his spectacular discovery with the Government, but "they paid no attention to me." During the war, Dunninger tried to give the Navy a method of making battleships invisible, but again was balked by bureaucratic obtuseness. A Navy spokesman snorted: "Wildly...
...proof this method gives that cancer cells are not "autonomous"; that in some cases, at least, they can be trained to resume some of the functions of the normal cells from which they are descended. If they can be trained, perhaps they can eventually be trained to destroy themselves...
...show eloquently the danger of Mr. Ober's philosophy: ". . . How could an effective 'closer watch' on 'extracurricular activities' be maintained unless the watch extended to conversations and correspondence? . . . What sort of a place would Harvard be if it went down this road? It would . . . not require six months to destroy the morale of both our teachers and students, and therefore our usefulness to the country...