Word: killed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Koran is the sole Turkish law authority, and anything that is not accounted for in it is not a case for courts. A pistol murder, for example, cannot come up in court because Allah, when he dictated the Koran, forgot to speak of pistols. In addition, a Moslem can kill, assault, rob, and injure a Christian in any manner he pleases because this doesn't constitute a crime in Turkey. With prospects like these any man fortunate enough to be born a Turk is indeed lucky, provided of course that he can find a Christian on whom to practice...
...play was principally for possession of the net, and the game was largely of vollying. Frequently Bradley and Turner were forced back from the net because of their failure to kill many easy lobs...
...England conscience is an ever-present lash, working relentlessly against all natural inclinations and all repose. It it the father and mother of inhibitions, wise and unwise. It is first cousin to all kill-joys and gloom. It is forever stepping up and saying "No!" and tends to associate a sense of guilt with all innocent amusement. It fights against idleness as against one of the cardinal sins. It considers all rest as probably wrong and seeks to drive its victims to incessant mental activity...
...forty-million-mad" nation cannot help but create, and then kill, its artists. Until it learns to read and study the great books within its reach as well as discuss "hooch" and the Hell Gate Bridge, "Nick Carter", with their authors dying forgotten, will continue to be its chief representatives in the field of "non-material achievement...
...titles, the present commercializing of the degree would stop. Unless some method of prevention is adopted, and adopted soon, by the American universities of high standing, the abuse will prove hydra-headed with the founding of each new institution, and like the hydra will be almost impossible to kill...