Word: kills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...directors that it is much better to close up the affairs of the society now, and pay all debts, than it would be to drag through the year and end up with a deficit, and an assessment that could never be collected. Such a failure as that would kill co-operation at Harvard. Such a one as they propose is merely the end of a partially successful experiment, and will without doubt lead to another in the future...
...game is demoralizing to the spectators mainly through its brutality; unfair play they usually fail to recognize. We often heard cries of "kill him." "break his neck" "slug him," "hit him," "knock him down," from those around...
...great penetration, seems to have been at a proportionate loss of its short-range efficiency. At one hundred and fifty and two hundred yards, the average distance of game shorts, it is important that the trajectory should be as flat as possible, and a rifle which will kill at a much greater, invariably has at the shorter, distance too high a trajectory...
...pain that they may gain from the results obtained. Why should animals so much duller be spared? We use animals for all other purposes, for food and clothing, and even for enjoyment and sport. The physiologist is certainly not so cruel as the sportsman. He takes every precaution to kill his victim with the least pain. Indeed, so painless are his methods that the death of an animal so killed is much pleasanter than that of the animal exposed to the vicissitudes of nature. In the natural state the weak are exposed to the attacks of the strong, and often...
...other extreme and entirely separated the legislative from the executive, but did not define the powers of each. Thus the legislative body has gained the whole power, and it does nothing but fight over the spoils. The responsibility is so divided among the committees that lobbying can kill any bill, however important. In State affairs the same trouble exists, especially in Massachusetts. The governor has no power, and no responsibility. Boards and commissions, paid and directed by the legislature, control everything in the State, and are entirely irresponsible. Thus there is no common system in the government, since everybody...