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Word: destroyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running a social walfare state. While he does not complain that British nationalization as such holds back production and productivity, Professor Williams believes both sides of the British socialist budget are to high. "Taxes, always essentially restrictive, have been raised so high as to dry up saving and destroy incentives among workers producers, and investors...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Faculty Experts Applaud Devaluation | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...happened to mention casually the Catholic dogma, 'There is no salvation outside the (Catholic) Church. Some acted as though I were uttering an innovation they had never heard before, and others had the doctrine so completely covered with reservations and vicious distinctions as to ruin its meaning and destroy the effect of its challenge. In a few minutes, the room was swarming with slogans of liberalism and sentimentalism. Taken in their totality and in the manner in which they were used and understood by the utterers these slogans constituted an outlook incompatible with the Catholic faith and with the traditions...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: St. Benedict's Explains Its Doctrine | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

Slivovitz with Photostat. Rajk testified that in 1931, when he was 22, he had signed a paper enlisting in Horthy's secret police, then run by Dr. Peter Hetenyi. Thereafter, as he rose in the Communist Party which he was supposed to destroy, this paper dogged him. Apparently everybody except the Communists had a copy of it. According to Rajk, the French Deuxieme Bureau, the Gestapo and U.S. Intelligence all used the paper to blackmail Rajk into serving them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Autobiography | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Lord, I give him into Thy hand, as a captain putteth a sword into the hand of his sovereign, wherewith to lay waste his enemies. May he be a two-edged weapon in Thy hand and a spear coming out of Thy mouth, to destroy, and overcome, and pass over; and may the enemies of Thy Church fall down before him, and be as dung to fat the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Said Chilean Communist Cesar Godoy, an ex-Senator: "Chile is a typical example of how imperialist warmakers served by repulsive native agents seek to destroy what is best in the country." Mrs. Paul Robeson explained that her husband had stayed in the U.S. "to finish the battle of Peekskill" (TIME, Sept. 5). Only the U.S.'s O. John Rogge, after unsuccessful efforts had been made to censor him, struck a discordant note, and his was one of the last speeches. Before he finished saying that "the excesses of capitalism are balanced by the excesses of Communism," most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down Warmongers! | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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