Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temptation to some men to stir up class prejudice. Against that effort I set myself uncompromisingly. . . . I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses of the working people of this country to destroy themselves by setting class against class and rich against poor...
...extended, so that guests from one House may dine at another House without extra charge." Another repeated his conviction that "In time an innovation of this kind will be desirable, say in five years, but at the present time, too wide an extension of privileges will tend to destroy incipient House spirit...
...young New Jersey women who painted watch dials with radium preparations began dying, experts denounced the use of radium internally. Particularly vocal were Dr. Flinn of Columbia and Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, medical examiner of Essex County, N. J. With radium applied externally and for short periods to destroy cancers they had no quarrel. But imbibed radium accumulated in the bones. It was certain death, because, before its ravages could be recognized, it had destroyed a fatal amount of bone...
...deficit; last year he and his wife made up $187,884 of the $279,829 loss. This year it has been possible to raise' only one-sixth of what is likely to be needed. But Patron Eckstein is cheerful. Said he: "One inactive season will not destroy Ravinia's prestige at home or abroad. . . . I believe that in 1933, the year of the Century of Progress [world's fair], it will be possible to present at Ravinia a season of such superb artistic distinction that it will attract not only the citizens of Chicago, but music lovers...
...earth on its axis. The measures to meet the new conditions will probably take the form of double, triple, and quadruple tracking of traffic levels, viaducts, and chambers consecting buildings underground, together with other expedients that seem like figments from the imagination of H. G. Wells. To destroy the new growth would be futile, and one is tempted to say, criminal, if it were possible. Control it we must, and the zoning law is the first method of control...