Word: lethalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next War. We have already gas of such potency that it will lay waste whole cities; the "ray" is not so deadly as this; it attacks only the specific object at which it is directed. And there remains the justifiable skepticism in the ability of all of these lethal toys to perform in action as atipulated. After all, they must be operated by human beings, and, human beings are vulnerable. Probably the horrors of war will be increased, but its effectiveness, which has not increased with modern weapons, will remain the same. The proportion of casualties to total-numbers engaged...
...Athertons are children of the moon. Though her father and her brother stumbled to their deaths under the lethal fascination of white moonlight, Jane Atherton has apparently escaped the taint. She engages herself to Major John Bannister, aviator...
Captain Phillips also asserted that poison gas as a lethal weapon was no more barbarous than rifle or shell fire, for if it kills it kills instantly or not at all. He then read extracts from medical journals that reported that only one per cent of the wounded died as a result of gas poisoning...