Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says MacVeagh, "can it be made to serve, as so many other sciences do, the ends of those lethal arts by which men destroy themselves and their civilizations...
Last week Das Schwarze Korps, descended from appalling generalities to particulars. It proposed this program to destroy Germany's Jews as follows: first impoverish them; this will end in the Jews' having no other means of livelihood than to descend to criminality; "at this stage of development we should therefore face the hard necessity of exterminating the Jewish underworld in the same fashion in which ... we exterminate criminals generally?by fire and sword...
...cruises were not, as you infer, of no military consequence. They were of sufficient importance to warrant commissioning all overseas naval vessels of the Washington Government to make special effort to find him and destroy...
Startled by the report that Japanese were outside the walls of Changsha, midway between Hankow and Canton, zealous city officials last week hurried to carry out their "scorched earth" policy (to destroy everything of value to the invaders). They made the mistake of forgetting to warn the populace in time. Fire roared through the city so fast that thousands of families were trapped. Firefighters struggled for five days before the flames were brought under control. Some 2,000 Chinese were burned to death, more injured...
...drop "one of the most important experiments . . . in teachers' education." Cried New College's faculty: "The passing of New College will destroy the position of Teachers College as a leader. . . ." Snapped Dean Russell: "Any talk about ulterior motives is bunk...