Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's] murderers are for the most part made up of poor devils who in some way have succumbed to the stress of life. ... In the United States the ebb of the Prohibition tide might even cause a situation far more desperate than its flow. You cannot throw some thousands of well-armed and ruthless criminals out of profitable employment with impunity...
...much of the fighting that drove his race off the free earth into government reservations to decay. Treaty after treaty the Indians drew up with the Wasichus (white men) who took what land they wanted, promised the rest should remain Indian "as long as grass should grow and water flow. You can see that it is not the grass and the water that have forgotten...
Promptly all Moscow seethed over this CHIEF DANGER and outsiders were mildly amazed-for did not Josef Stalin demand two years ago "the liquidation of the kulak?" Did not rivers of blood flow? And was not the kulak liquidated...
...followed the A. E. F. in France, served in Siberia, is further distinguished by the longest by-line of all the correspondents in Shanghai. The three news services together send from 12,000 to 30,000 words a day at a cost of about $4,000. The flow of their dispatches is divided between RCA radio across the Pacific, and cable via Siberia and London. Either way transmission time to the U. S. is 30 to 50 min. (Some messages filed in duplicate both ways have met at the same instant in Chicago.) Urgent messages at $2.36 a word...
...made a report on the "Pharmacology of Thallium and Its Use in Rodent Control" for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, found pilocarpine helpful. Philocarpine, an active poison from the tropical American jaborandi shrub, stimulates many of the physiological activities which thallium destroys. It causes saliva and urine to flow, hair to grow. Mr. Munch telegraphed instructions to California on how to use the drug, took a plane to administer it himself...