Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through drear winter months of pregnancy, her mother plotted desperately to avoid the fusillade of village gossip which would destroy the family if once it began. The piteous tearful prisoner sat in a gloomy room with many strands of wool across her lap to excuse her from rising. Few sat with her except M. Allemand, her piano teacher, whose myopic eyes were sharper than anyone imagined...
...secrets: 1) the U. S. had had a spy aboard a British warship during maneuvers, who reported on secret methods whereby British guns could outrange those of the U. S. fleet; 2) maneuvers in miniature at the Naval War College at Newport had demonstrated that the British fleet could destroy the U. S. Navy in 80 minutes...
...scientists met at Dr. Steinmetz's invitation in a General Electric laboratory at Schenectady. Curious, they looked at a big generator the little doctor had made. Nervous, most of them looked away again. They knew what they were there for. The doctor was to create an indoor thunderstorm, destroy a miniature village with a million horsepower of artificial lightning. Suppose, thought the spectators, the sardonic-looking wizard should go suddenly mad! Suppose he should turn his electrical fury...
...Senator Thomas of Oklahoma: "Governor Smith, if elected President, could not have appointed anyone starting out to destroy Prohibition any more than the Hoover Commission chairman has done...
...Minister of Propaganda during the War and now leads the obstreperous Left Unionist Bloc, was last week the first anti-ratifica-tionist to cross a potent sword with M. Briand as the Foreign Minister assumed the Government's defense. With fire and slash M. Franklin-Bouillion sought to destroy by an emotional onslaught the Government's chief logical reason why France must ratify her debt agreement not later than Aug. 1 next. On that date, as M. Poin-caré had incessantly reminded the Chamber, there would fall due the debt of $400,000,000 owed by France...