Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the newly, found powder. Two groups of mice were given pneumonia by injection. Group A was then injected with the white powder. These recovered. Every member of Group B died. A more rigorous test was then made on one mouse. Into his body were injected enough germs "to kill a million mice." He was given the white powder-and quickly recovered. These experiments on mice continued until Dr. Felton was positive he had found a remedy for pneumonia. At least he was certain the new substance was in no way harmful. He then determined the exact potency...
Unfortunately the same chemical activity that makes white phosphorus glow in the dark also makes it poison the workmen in the factories and occasionally kill a mouse or an inquiring baby, so that matches of this sort were practically taxed out of existence by Federal law some years...
...remote courses. One of his yarns concerns a country club at Nairobi. Among the trophies on the walls is a stuffed head of a zebra. It seems that a foursome, starting out after an early breakfast, encountered a lion on the third green, where it had just made its kill. One of the players went back to the clubhouse for a rifle, and potted the lion. The head of the zebra, upon which the lion had been feasting, was saved and mounted as a souvenir. Ralph Paine's comment, when the tale was told him at Mombasa, was that meeting...
...partial success. The Britisher's invention will be offered to the British Government first, but, if not accepted, then to other nations. The French and German experimenters have not yet reached the efficiency of the Englishman's machine. It can also be used against infantry, either to kill or disable...
...troops had been called out to get the situation in hand. The outbreak was openly encouraged by the Bratiano Cabinet, following the opening of the trial of six students at the Bucharest University on the charge of attempting to muder M. Rosenthal, prominent Hebrew editor, and of plotting to kill Aristide Blank, his father, the editors of all the Jewish newspapers and several Cabinet Ministers suspected of having "sold themselves to the Jews...