Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first guess, last week, was a decline of some 750 millions.) Last week President Roosevelt ordered the Treasury to undertake a tax study for the edification of the 76th Congress. In the next twelve-month the Treasury's deficit may well reach 4,400 millions and shoot the National Debt up over 41 billions-six billions greater than the figure of $35,026,000,000 which Franklin Roosevelt anticipated 17 months ago would be the peak of U. S. debts...
...gathering of some 100 distinguished physicists by retracting a theory which he had espoused two and a half years ago, and by putting forth a new one in its place. Cosmic rays are electrified particles which constantly bombard Earth from every direction. It is estimated that about 30 shoot through every human body every second. They have energies higher than any particles ever propelled by man-made machines- energies, in some cases, measured in hundreds of billions of electron-volts...
...ample time to reopen the cases if the report warranted it. There is still time and the report most emphatically does justify a reopening, yet Dr. Conant seems satisfied with things as they are. Apparently the shotgun went off entirely by accident but managed, by pure chance, to shoot the right...
Perhaps the most contradictory phrase of the 20th Century is "civilized warfare." Also, the idea that it is all right to shoot people with a steel-jacketed but not a dumdum bullet, to run them through with bayonets but not choke them with gas, to destroy their vessels with a battleship but not a submarine-all this is quite confusing to some uncomplicated minds. Lately the democracies have been trying to "humanize"' the wars in Spain and China, chiefly by urging the cessation of bombing behind the lines...
Says the introspective hero of this slyly anti-British novel: "Isn't pioneering always a running away from something? . . . It's more difficult to make your way among millions of your equals and betters than to shoot a few savages and animals and suffer some little inconveniences. The wild animals are less predatory too than the nicest people. Safer, for a person like...