Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet delegation," he said, "is convinced that this refusal to limit reserves will destroy the hope of solving the disarmament problem...
...they have been chary of X-raying women who might be gravid. It is not always certain that a woman is pregnant. She may be bloated through hysteria or, more usually, have a benign tumor or a cancer. X-rays can help in the diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have on the growing fetus has been an uncertainty among doctors. Few have experimented in this regard on animals and none, so far as is known, on humans...
...data in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In brief they are: 1) X-ray-ing for a few seconds to get a photograph does not harm the unborn child, unless photographs are taken too frequently; 2) X-ray or radium doses strong enough to cause sterility or to destroy tumors cause abortions during the early months of pregnancy, or during the end of term monstrosities (of eyes, brain or spinal cord); 3) the younger the embryo, the greater the damage done...
...said the Chief and he called a soldier, ordering him to take the bomb to the headquarters of General Augustin de la Vega, the rebel commander, and destroy it. The soldier, misunderstanding, left the bomb ticking quietly on General de la Vega's desk...
...goal. The City of New York asks ships at sea to watch for him. The Empress of Scotland answers that she has sighted him. The fog cries out: "I am the fog, turn about." Lindbergh retorts: "That will I not." The snow storm speaks, says it has tried to destroy him, to bury him in the waters of the Atlantic. A typical passage...