Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lurid paraphrases of this headline were carried by scores of newspapers above a lead which gave in indirect discourse a proclamation by General Pai Tsung-hsi, the Nationalist commander in immediate control of Shanghai. His actual words were, in part: "The Chinese people must not insult the foreigners or destroy their property. . . The people must distinguish between combatting foreign imperialism and attacking foreigners. . . . But we Chinese now have awakened and Shanghai, the greatest commercial centre in the Far East, will become not only a strong base for Chinese nationalism but for world revolution...
...like the paper lace on a lamb chop. Heedless that he had taken coppers from the purses and bread from the mouths of kiosk women too weak to resist him, the strapping Abbé cried: "If I saw poison being offered to a child, I would seize it and destroy it. These periodicals empoison the soul created by God. They incite to ribaldry and lust...
...much larger number of undergraduates opportunities for participation in football. The first also frees Seniors from the demands of intercollegiate competition and enables them to devote themselves exclusively to the primary purpose of the college. Most important of all the home and home arrangement will diminish, may even destroy, the whole public emphasis now devoted to the University eleven. With two teams of equal strength instead of one there will no longer be any "varsity" for the papers to write about and the public to talk about incessantly for two months every autumn. It will end the Saturday emigrations...
...country, the movement now seen on every hand that leads to the special handling of individual cases and to giving special individuals special privileges so as to let them get more out of their studies, is taken to be perhaps the chief educational tendency of the times. It will destroy the "lock step" into which the traditional curriculum has fallen...
...wrote the doctor, in effect, "my cigars are terrible and I blow the smoke in my opponent's face, why do my opponents never object at the time of blowing? Furthermore, if my cigars were of inferior quality, they would destroy the subtle, inimitable fabric of my own game. Those who have seen me play and watched the smoke curve will bear witness that it curves away from rather than toward my opponent." He went...