Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Saturday the lambs were led to slaughter. The Varsity took a few laps up and down the Stadium turf. A small college team went home wondering what it was all about. Buffalo could undoubtedly do very well against a team of its own class, but in this case it failed miserably. The competition was as sports-man-like as a match between Jack Sharkey and any average fly weight fighter--and a little less interesting for players and spectators. Buffalo can like it wounds with the knowledge that the demands of the Buffalo Harvard Club have been satisfied...
Bendek, besides being a real man, is also something of a thief. Odin can put up with his stealing fish from other folks' nets, but when Bendek impounds a neighbor's ram to slaughter it, Odin sets it free. Bendek admires that kind of spirit - "he can be whatever he chooses, par son or pirate, that one" - but he has not so much of it as Odin. On a dare from the Jörnstrand boys Odin takes Bendek's bewitched otter-gun, shoots a grey troll-creature that appears on an island offshore. When Bendek discovers...
...Miller accompanies an expedition to the Mexican island Guadalupe to collect elephant seals for the zoo. This capture, though it sounds adventurous, does not excite him much. More exciting are the thousands of wild goats which infest the island, and two men who live there the year round. They slaughter only the billy goats. The hides go to the U. S., the meat to the Mexican Army. Parts which the Mexican Army does not want the men grind into fine powder, sell to the Chinese for an aphrodisiac. A wealthy old man has a cabin on the island...
Speaking on the subject of China, Dr. Rowland said that the most important artistic relics of the past are in regions infested with native bandits of the most vicious character, and which have recently seen the slaughter of 100,000 natives in religious wars between Mohammedans and Confucianists...
...China must become adept at slaughter. China must now put her national defense above all else...