Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlarge the study of bacteriology. One great problem of the science has to do with viruses. What are they? Are they germs too small to see with the microscope or the ultramicroscope? Are they germ poisons? Are they transitional forms which germs adopt? Whatever they are, they are a vicious nuisance, involved in such diseases as infantile paralysis, smallpox, measles, rabies, rheumatism...
...endeavor must be made," urged the Royal Commission, "to enhance the efficiency, to heighten earnings and to improve conditions of life. . . . Poverty leads to bad conditions and inefficiency, inefficiency and bad conditions to poverty." Thus the Royal Commission discovered a 20th Century vicious circle similar to the mystic Hindu Wheel of Karma: a series of events everlastingly repeating each other from which the only escape is violently to break the wheel...
...Gandhi has charged British employers with heartless, indifferent exploitation of their Indian employes. The Royal Commission stigmatized last week the "vicious system" whereby British employers do not hire & fire their Indian help themselves, but leave this to Indian foremen who extort the last anna of tribute from wretches who pay to get a job, pay to keep it. An entire chapter is devoted by the Royal Commission to abuses and extortions practiced upon simple Indian peasants who come to town seeking factory jobs...
...grammar. Much of what he said could not be understood by the public when it appeared in print, for Mr. Farrell spoke with mill terms as well as mill frankness. But his big points were dramatically clear, namely: 1) That steel companies are engaged in a mean and vicious war of price-cutting; 2) that buyers of steel (e. g. the automobile manufacturers) are demoralizing he industry by their "ghoulish glee" in forcing prices down; 3) that if insensate price-cutting does not quickly stop, worse conditions will follow. Extracts from the Farrell speech...
Evidently finding the scorching weather a tonic for the batting eye, a vicious Harvard baseball nine went on a hitting spree last Saturday at Providence, and it took the best efforts of two Brown pitchers to confine the visiting nine to 15 bits and a 10 to 2 run victory. The game was a flashy spectacle from start to finish, with the free hitting of the winning Harvard batsmen being offset by the professional in fielding of the Bruin basemen, who staged four fast double plays during the tilt. Mac Hale garnered his second victory of the season over Brown...