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Word: kill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...none because Greenway was adraggin' me into the bushes. Then Hester came and helped Greenway do what he was doin' to me. I went back later and seen Connie layin' in the road. He was daid." Later, she said, the attackers informed her that they had killed Franklin and would kill her too if she told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Arkansas Vindicated | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...propose to ask the Government to supply the Prince with a tank in which he can drive pellmell through the streets and so destroy all automobiles, bakers' carts, the officers' casino, the academy, the athenaeum, the university, and all state and private institutions, and kill every traffic policeman who tries to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Speed-Fiend Nicholas | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Will you surrender? We will shoot to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...title, have been delivered since time immemorial as a special treat in U. S. boarding schools on Saturday nights, but prosaic when measured against some of the animal scenes that have been artificially arranged in recent romances of wild countries. Some of Dyott's facts are interesting. Indians never kill ordinary elephants, regarding them as almost sacred because of their capacity for work. They kill only rogue elephants, lonely, vindictive bulls who have become killers when driven out of their tribe by the hostility of tribal females. If an Indian kills a rhinoceros without permission, he is fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

These men, he declared, are often murderous; impelled by the high prices obtainable for ducks and geese, they will even kill wardens from ambush. Chief Redington's suggestions prompted the conference to send a resolution to Congress asking that game wardens be protected as are federal police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Game Gossip | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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