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Word: destroyers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That juvenile notion may pass undisputed when the boys hold combat among themselves, staging high jinks in their own Yard. But it counts for naught when the battling children disrupt traffic, delay the homeward course of tired workers, endanger human life and destroy hard-earned property. Such antics deserve no indulgence. They should have sharpest repression and punishment by the police and the courts, and sternest rebuke by collegiate authorities, with quick and permanent expulsion of proved ring-leaders among the offenders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

Because of a pine tree fire just at game time, which threatened to destroy the stands filled with a B.U. Junior Class Day crowd, and because of the sloppiness of the play, it was 7:30 o'clock before the last batter was retired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. NINE DEFEATS CRIMSON VARSITY 18-10; LONG GAME | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...Storm Troops calmly goosestep into the demilitarized Rhineland zone (TIME, March 16, 1936), and France form a pact with godless Stalin (TIME, May 13, 1935) whom Belgians, most of them devout Roman Catholics, hate. More recently they have watched 27 neutral nations ignominiously fail to let Spain destroy itself unassisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Century's Bargain | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...Ranger guards arrive, the clocks are all crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help of his daughter Joan (Jean Rogers), a Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Last week, however, Warden Eckert gave the nation's birdfolk fresh alarm by proposing to step up his campaign, declaring: "My hunters will get new orders to shoot every golden eagle they see, destroy all the nests and young they can find. If necessary, new hunters will be sent out." Four days later Warden Eckert's term expired and Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark replaced him with a deserving Democrat who, having had no experience with wild life, was expected to let eagles prey in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Eagle Thinning | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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