Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exposition finished, the President invited the entire population to share with him responsibility for seeing that his work relief billions are well spent. "This is a great national crusade to destroy enforced idleness. . . . Feel free to criticize, tell me of instances where work can be done better, or where improper practices prevail...
...Government that the Cabinet can constitutionally overrule the General Staffs. To revenge themselves, the patriots dug out Dr. Minobe's "organ theory" and charged him with lèse-majesté against the Emperor. They formed the Organ Theory Destruction League and warned Dr. Minobe they would destroy him unless he recanted. This he refused...
...have a plan. In America they work without a plan. In America they destroy crops. We increase production. In America they reduce production and increase unemployment...
Ancient is the topical application of heat for medicinal purposes-Hippocrates' hot douche, hot baths, poultices, hot water bottles. The physiological basis for the body-heating vogue is the recently recognized fact that fever is the result of the body's effort to destroy disease. Hence fever should be judiciously encouraged and seldom, but never hysterically, fought. In 1917 Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna, experimenting with artificial fevers induced by deliberately infecting patients with malaria, found that such artificial fevers brought about improvement and occasionally cures in the cases of people whose brains had been softened...
...back to him just in time, that the miners are about to go back to work on unfavorable terms, Joe goes down into the mine with a load of explosives. From the bottom of the shaft he telephones up that unless the miners' demands are met, he will destroy the mine. The company's officials take him at his word. When Black Fury opened in Manhattan last week, it was advertised by its producers and hailed by critics as "courageous." This indicated two sad facts: 1) Hollywood cinemagnates are so pathologically timid that they consider it almost heroic...