Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary process when a vicious disease is discovered is to isolate and experiment with methods of control and cure. But there is one disease in which this method will not be used. The U. S.-Government forbids it, for what It regards as good and sufficient reasons. Not least of these is that the disease is too vicious for study...
...question has been asked: What will happen if in the course of bacterial evolution an equally vicious and infectious human disease should develop. Our humanitarian ideas would not permit us to use the exterminative method employed against the hoof and mouth disease. Fortunately such a condition is not imminent...
Tariff. "The best way to get relief from the high costs of living is to scrap the vicious Fordney-McCumber Tariff Bill the Republicans put over. I hope to see a general reduction of all taxes...
...veteran and twice he climbed the steep bank to make sensational clutches under the shadow of the fence, Hammond patrolled second base admirably. In the third and again in the tenth he robbed Dins more of apparently certain hits. The latter play, a back-hand catch of a vicious liner, brought the crowd to its feet with a spontaneous roar of applause. Jenkins was a bulwark of strength at short-stop...
Harvard's biggest threat came in the eight, when Field lined a single to right and Maher single sharply to center. Amsden drove a vicious liner directly at the third baseman which the latter knocked down, forcing Field at third. Maher and Amsden moved up on a wild pitch, but Shoop settled down and struck out the next...