Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tuberculosis. " Cures " for tuberculosis emanated from France, Germany, Spain inside of one month. Rafael Santos, 25-year-old Porto Rican medical student in Paris, constructed a set of lenses for introducing sun rays and ultraviolet rays into the lungs without injury to tissue, claiming it would kill all tuberculosis bacilli in less than half an hour...
...Chemical Warfare Service is giving serious attention to the problem of developing a gas to destroy the worm which preys on golf greens and fairways, raising little piles of dirt. The gas must hang low and kill the worm without injuring the vegetation. The Service has already developed gases noxious to various kinds of pests, including the boll weevil...
...theories were immediately advanced for the assassination. " It was family revenge," say some, and point to one Herrera, the only male Herrera whom Villa did not kill. "It was politics," say others. Some of the assassins, apprehended by Federal troops, are held for investigation...
...every effort in every way that tends toward the peace program of the world." Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court spoke later in a similar vein: " We have certain laws about war, but none against war. . . . Even as the ancient code declared ' Thou shall not kill,' so surely must the modern code declare ' Thou shalt...
...original story Don José takes Carmen out in the country. In a secluded place he makes his final plea for her to love him again. She replies that she does not love him, that he may kill her if he pleases. She knows that he will kill her because she has read it in the cards. He leaves her sitting beside the road, goes to a nearby priest's house, instructs the priest to say a mass for a woman who is about to die, returns to Carmen, who awaits him with a tremendous fatalism, and kills...