Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some thousands of dogs grew vexed, last week, in the famed Kutta Nagar (Dog City) built near Baroda by the rich and pious Hindu Shet Arjunlal. He, conscious that it is a Hindu sin for man or beast to kill, has impounded dogs innumerable in a 300-acre tract completely floored with cement so that not even a mouse can get in to be killed. There pups eat pancakes-or starve-and big dogs get no better fare than nutted biscuits. Last week the dogs rebelled, as by a secret animal accord, sat back on their haunches and poured...
...Able Engineer Ogle and others have made painless death a reality at Sing Sing. Once it took three shocks to kill; now only one is necessary. Properly applied electric current reaches the brain in 1/240 of a second; thus, the loss of consciousness is almost instantaneous. Compared to this, the prick of a needle at the base of the skull (taking 1/10 of a second to reach the brain) is sluggish...
Isadora Duncan, danseuse: "A year after the opera bouffe suicide of my young poet-husband, Sergei Yessenin (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), I too determined to kill myself-or so my friends said last week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves...
...cardioarthritidis) from the blood of rheumatic patients and had been able to build a serum that cured a few cases of rheumatism. Director Krusen was delighted, for the cause of rheumatism (rheumatic fever) is obscure. Doctors know as little about it as they do about cancer. Rheumatism does not kill so many people as does cancer. Yet it is responsible for one-fourth of all heart disease deaths...
...moral problem which every community faces-whether or not to kill off in all kindness its incurably diseased members-was dramatized for Germany last week by the Reverend Walter Nithack-Stahn, pastor of the fashionable Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin. Pastor Nithack-Stahn knows of the skeletons in his congregation's closets. He knows too that the incidence of mental diseases have been increasing tremendously in all civilized countries, that in Germany, especially, post-War maladjustments have permanently deranged the minds of thousands. An astute gentleman alert to the wide interest in the subject, he wrote a play...