Word: krupp
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what description is this new invention? I really do not know. Perhaps it is like one of Krupp's guns. If so, what excellent swabbers and rammers and powder-monkeys the proctors would make! Perhaps - but why should I speculate? Why should the idea - the exceedingly faint and undefined idea - that at the approaching semi-annuals the brains of each and every one of us are to be carefully removed, dissected, weighed, and measured by this infallible instrument transform me into a querulous interrogation-point? Let us welcome the new machine, and accept with courage its edicts, conscious that they...