Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncommon thing for a knocked-down deer to do. A bullet clipping a deer at the base of the horns or just above the spine will often stun the animal for some time. Experienced deerslayers invariably sever their kill's jugular vein immediately upon reaching it, in the interests of safety, mercy, and to bleed the meat while it is still warm...
...build and endow in perpetuity three rest houses into which insects may withdraw from the world. Poor travelers will be allowed to sleep overnight in these bug rest houses, will even be paid a small sum for doing so, as long as they lie still and kill no bugs. Should a sleeper kill a bug, even by accidentally rolling over, he will be ejected from the bug house by attendants and forfeit his sleep money. No less than 200 insect rest houses of a more or less similar nature are maintained throughout India by pious natives who realize that...
...dagger rubber, the fight a charade planned by Professor Wheaton for the purpose of illustrating that the tesimony of eyewitnesses can differ. On Dec. 7, in Professor Wheaton's fully equipped courtroom at the law school, Hallisey will be tried for "assault with intent to kill." Senior law students will prepare the case against him and carry on the prosecution and defense, junior law students will testify. A real judge from the St. Louis Circuit Court of Appeals will preside; a real jury of "twelve good men and true" will sit in Professor Wheaton's legal workshop...
...York it is the collective skyscraper at the city's workaday hub that breeds more subways, less money for other needs, and more motor vehicles in the skyscrapers' service to kill more children in the children's only playground, the roadways between the sidewalks of New York...
...Kiwanis Clubs, Ralph A. Amerman of Scranton, Pa., with his brother Edward and a third big game hunter, J. O. Beebe of Omaha. Mounted on tough cayuses, guided by William Powell, astute Indian, attended by four cowboys, the four sportsmen were to hunt until each had made one kill in true pioneer fashion (shooting from the saddle). Then Guide Powell was to take other parties out. A hunt with 50 participating was planned...