Word: killed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Codes Committee of the New York Assembly voted unanimously to kill the Cotillo-Leininger bills, designed to prevent medical "experimentation " on children or animals, after a spirited hearing at which prominent witnesses appeared on both sides. Former State Senator Charles W. Walton, Mrs. Belle De Rivera of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. George Arliss, Mrs. Diana Belais, and others, for the " anti-vivisectionists," appealed to the legislators to prevent alleged horrible practices on poor orphan children...
...League, far from being in any sense dead, had definitely come to stay in the world, and had a spirit behind it, embodied by such leaders as Lord Robert Cecil and Dr. Nansen of Norway, that is not the kind of spirit that either men or adverse circumstances can kill. It was interesting to see the leaven working day by day on such Americans as had come to Geneva with unfriendly or skeptical feelings toward the League. After a few days, I heard several conservative Republicans say that they now felt that America should cooperate to the fullest extent with...
...come out of all the waste and wreckage of the war. He would be a misanthrope indeed, who wished it dead. And, as Mr. Root has said, if he thought it dead, he would be most unwise. For it has a spirit and determination behind it that nothing can kill, and, taking it all in all, it is one of the most buoyantly living things in the world today
...Local. The miners see their strike jeopardized by the scabs, and the community terrorized by the mine guards. Fresh arrogance by the invading company detectives fans the flames to hatred. The miners begin to arm, a group of them ambush a truck full of guards coming from Carbondale and kill three. It is the overt act of class warfare...
...assumption, now safely made, that an American officer did not shoot and kill an American private in France...