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Word: poisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nobel Prize" winner's new volume of plays containing "Press Cuttings" "the Glimpse of Reality," "Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction," "The Fascinating Foundling," "Jitta's Atonement," "Constancy Rewarded," and "The Music Cure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME NOTABLE FALL BOOKS | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...Yaqui in their principal stronghold, the State of Sonora; 2) to distribute the Yaqui themselves throughout Mexico on small units of land, thus definitely finally breaking up the tribes as a national unit; 3) to employ in accomplishing this stupendous task every weapon of modern warfare, including poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Looming President | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...last world struggle was a war to end war! Nations are now racing madly for the next war. It will mean the deathblow for Western civilization. Yet the trained intelligence of scientists has been devoted these last few years to the discovery of the best means of wholesale slaughter. Poison gas has been so perfected by their work that its use in the next war will mean racial murder. Cities will be blotted out as trenches were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAYMOND ROBINS RAPS WAR WASTE IN P.B.H. TALK | 10/27/1926 | See Source »

...City, Mo., caused Publisher William Randolph Hearst to pause in that city and say: "I will be glad to get back in line with the Democratic party if they will nominate a real Democrat like Reed." Senator Reed said nothing, remembered that Publisher Hearst's friendship had been poison to many another candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...explosion was the signal for revolutionaries who toppled the Manchu dynasty in ruins, and built unsteadily out of the debris the north-central republic under Yuan Shih-kai and the rival southern republic under Sun Yatsen. Both these "presidents" died,-the former at the height of power, allegedly by poison; the latter a weary exile in cold Peking. China became the spoil of numerous Tuchuns or provincial governors. One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Double Ten | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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