Word: weapons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tackling practice tried tempers. Tackling has been called the most valued weapon of a player's arma ment. In games, tackling is the swift answer to an enemy chal lenge; fraught with an emotional energy that softens, psychologically the bumps. In practice, it is a dull business hammering with the shoulders the piston hammers of another man's knees...
...values. She could get an Alan Pomeroy so easily by the time she met him that she could not relish him - rufous, genuine, generous, but so obtainable. A Jerry Davis, her natural match at seduction and vastly her superior in experience, could destroy her indifference with one infallible weapon, greater indifference...
...failure as a politician. Unfitted by his retiring personality to capture votes by red-ink methods as he has captured readers, he started under an almost insuperable handicap. He lacked the glad hand. He never was a mixer on a small scale or a large one. Accordingly the only weapon he had left was his brain, backed up by the power of newspapers. These proved insufficient...
...perhaps 10,000 population be given about as much warning as it would get in wartime, that gas masks and other protection be provided for the citizens and "possibly . . . horses," that the city then be gassed. This would show, thought Dr. Holmes, the humanity of gas as a weapon. "The belief that gas warfare is devilish should be abolished." Dr. Holmes was talking throughout only about tear gases (bromacetone, xylyl bromide, diphosgene...
Rector Henry Lewis had said: "The introduction of science is the outstanding fact of our time, and in morals science has created an entirely new moral situation. For when you have introduced contraceptions you have changed your moral situation. You have done away with that old, but very effective weapon which has deterred many a person from going beyond the accepted moral code-fear of consequences. That fear no longer rests in the breast of any scientifically educated man or woman, and along with the passing of that fear is also going a vast amount of ignorance and misinformation upon...