Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Science certainly does change life! Heretofore one was reasonably certain that "when the brains were out the man would die", but now even this assurance is taken from us. Our enemies may live forever, and the one we kill today will have a chance to kill us tomorrow. To be sure, it would be but a momentary triumph, however, for the second dead man could be promptly revived. Formerly when two men fought and one was more or less damaged the other was fined a few dollars--if one died the other might have been hanged. But now killing...
...plan is indeed ideal. But it is not quite complete. As all strikers are iniquitous and all strikers should be exterminated, is it not foolhardy to kill off merely the workers? It is the mothers who breed future strikers. They too must be annihilated. If respectable people are ever to enjoy peace, the entire proletariat must be wiped out. By the expenditure of a few extra pounds of explosives, the air pilots can easily destroy the undesirable slum sections of our cities...
...individuals would see the folly of having guns at all. The agreement not to increase their armaments would force the members of that community to increase their wits and to come to terms by arbitration, compromise or private bargaining. "The way to disarm is to disarm". The way to kill the scorching beast is not to feed him. HARRY REIFF '25. October...
...along with Captain Coningsby Dawson, so vigorously quarrels? Is it not that of the human individual in the midst of a herd enterprise, war? What Tolstoi painted with such superb restraint in "War and Peace" and "Sebastopol", namely: what happens to individuals when the state orders them out to kill their fellow men. It is the tragedy of the State's failure to touch the souls of men, the inevitable violence and injustice to individuals in any military machine, which "Three Soldiers" depicts afresh. It has been the theme of some of the world's greatest novelists, whenever "military necessity...
...first place Executive Ability, Industry, Reliability and Efficiency are all inextricably interdependent. They are qualities which are inevitably brought out by the credit system which prevails in New Haven. With one stone we kill these four very similar birds, and one record of points is necessary instead of four...