Word: poisons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lincoln died because the abnormal mind of J. Wilkes Booth was persuaded he was a tyrant. McKinley was stretched on his bier because Czolgosz believed what yellow journalists told him. Clemenceau is on a bed of pain because a man was stimulated into action by poison distilled from the false charge that the great peacemaker was an imperialistic friend...
...sure the mass of citizens in the United States mean well and I firmly believe they will always act well . . . ; but in some parts of the Union . . . . it is not easy to accomplish this . . . . when the inventors and abettors of pernicious measures use infinite more industry in disseminating the poison, than the well disposed part of the community to furnish the antidote...
...years in France. Commissioned a major on April 5, 1917, Lee went overseas with the Harvard Base Hospital No. 5 on the 11th of May, 1917 Dr. Harvey Cushing was director of this unit, but in March, 1918, Major Lee who had been in charge of research work on poison gas victims was made commanding officer of the Base Hospital. He continued in this command until September 6, 1918, when he was assigned to the 3rd Army Corps and appointed Senior Medical Consultant. By this time he had been promoted to the rank of Lieut-Col. Lee was assigned...
...Getting by" is the advance poster of this lassitude. The expression "contains as much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race...
...University mourns the death of Herbert Frederick Engelbrecht, from poison gas, at the American University Experiment Station in Washington, D. C., December 3. Engelbrecht was Austin Teaching Fellow in Chemistry, and a third-year graduate student last year. As an instructor in organic chemistry he showed great promise. He joined the Chemical Warfare Service last summer. At the time of his death he was engaged in experiments on a new and powerful...