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Word: kill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Down. Two days later a larger mob stormed the barricades of the British concession, tore them down in many places, ventured onto the Bund, screaming: "Down with British Imperialism! Kill the Britishmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mouth of Han' | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Arthur T. McCormack, secretary of the State Board of Health, attributed the Louisville situation to: 1) dogs left un-muzzled by their owners; 2) ownerless dogs which the state has neglected to kill off; 3) failure to immunize dogs with rabies vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rabies | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...golf in foot-pounds of work, or a set of tennis in the lung power required with climbing a mountain under a forty-pound pack; compare chopping one big cross-log with the strokes of nine holes: and you will see why a seasoned tramper and axeman will "kill" a college athlete at this game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White Mountain Trail Pioneers Battle All the Forces of Nature | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

Since 1923, when an assassin fired upon him, seeking to kill the Bismarck of Serbia, the windows of the limousine have been of bulletproof glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: National Crisis | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...inverted into the masculine gender. The hero, as told in Jules Verne's novel, is solemnly commissioned by the Tsar Alexander to take a message from Moscow to the Grand Duke in Irkutsk. After encountering the Tartar hordes single-handed for no good reason, Mike arrives in time to kill the archvillain with his bare hands. The motivation puerile, the photography clumsy, it has, however, some good horse-backing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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