Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sloth drowses in his garden. His flowers have long fallen away, and round his sotted head creep the lank leaves of poison...
...Ceres, or rises abruptly from the river a mural escarpment of carboniferous limestone, which reflects its blue and sombre aspect in the crystal waters at its base. Like many other spots, however, remarkable for their loveliness, the subtle messengers of death have chosen it for their abode, infusing the poison of their breath into the serenity of autumn, when the transparency of the air and the purity of the sky, together with the gorgeous scenery, present at first to the unconscious traveller sensations alone of health and enjoyment...
...Hall of the Age of Man exhibit, in order to prove that man ascended from the brutes". He also accuses the Modernists of "demoralizing their congregations and transforming their churches into club rooms and "social centers" and of "destroying soul-winning zeal and power in foreign lands through the poison of their teaching...
...living for sin . . .", and all on account of articles in magazines. Dr. Straton averred that religion had redeemed him, but that such articles continue. He particularized The World's Work, The Century, the staid Atlantic Monthly as prints that are putting "into the literary and intellectual pot enough poison from their wild gourds to utterly destroy the people...
...large degree, the deposit of carbon in cylinders. It laid open the possibility of building a new and more efficient type of engine to use the new mixture-a type of engine which, using ordinary gasoline, would soon pound itself to pieces. But lead is a poisonous substance. Tetraethyl lead must be handled with circumspection in production and distribution. The "Ethyl Gasoline," gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead, is far less dangerous, containing only "about 1 part in 1,000" of the tetraethyl lead. There are three possible sources of danger in handling the tetraethyl lead and "Ethyl Gasoline...