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Word: kill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their number sported their masters' cast off hunting costumes. One of them rode an old broken down mare. All of them had flagrantly violated the first canon of fox-hunting good form by equipping themselves with rifles! To a true British aristocrat any other method of killing a fox than allowing the dogs to tear all of it but the "brush" to tatters smacks of sacrilege. One of the ladies of the Union Hunt Club loudly declared that whoever the pedestrian fox hunters were they should be shot with their own rifles. Up to her stepped one Bert Batchelor, doughty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Huntsmen | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...Democrats have one more example of Republican corruption to strut before the people; if the case could not be prepared in a year, the Montana Senator will get the credit for proving the Statute of Limitations an unwise law. Whichever barrel of the gun goes off. Senator Walsh will kill a political bird...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NIMROD OF THE WEST | 1/8/1926 | See Source »

...During their deportation from Billo to Gueznah, a ten days' march, the women of Billo were separated each night from their husbands and families and violated by Turkish soldiers and officers, who did not hesitate to kill those who resisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: At Geneva | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...identified the body in the morgue. She, Mrs. Lillian Werner Phal, legally married to Siki in 1924, bound up her head in a wet towel and told reporters about her husband. She did not dwell upon his recent carousals-that he was arrested five months ago for attempting to kill a policeman with a knife; that the U. S. Government has for some time been trying anxiously to deport him, and the French Government as anxiously refusing to take him back. Instead, she spoke with affection of his domestic qualities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Louis Phal | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...Change the water every twelve hours, but remember that too sudden a change of temperature may kill the fish. Therefore pour off only haK of the old water and add the same amount of cool, clean water. Fill the cans not more than three-quarters full, as too much water does not leave enough room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fish v. Oyster | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

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