Word: destroyer
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...Gioacchino Failla of Manhattan and Dr. Henri Coutard of Paris, both of whom spoke in Madison last week, are learning to focus x-ray beams of hundreds of thousands of volts upon cancerous internal organs and to bring about some cures. But no specialist can yet explain why radiations destroy cancers any more than a specialist can describe the exact conditions which permit a cancer to develop...
Beset on all sides by the Muckers of the Mind, who whenever circumstances like the present arise, will do their best to destroy that which they recognize as their most dangerous enemy, a gift for clear and concise thinking, most of our universities will have a difficult time. But there Harvard enjoys a privilege that makes it unique among our so-called seats of learning...
...female operatives as soon as they are unfortunate enough to peruse a copy of TIME. Such a calamity would react upon your paper in that "news" might become scarce over night. On the other hand, picture the handicaps I might be forced to labor under, in any plans to destroy Wall Street: to lower the value of Florida real estate by a bombing raid and alas, worst blow of all, to deprive the Hearst publications and the fair State of California of the chance to shout "We told you so!" Fair play, mates...
...Republican alarmists who proclaim the New Deal's march toward dictatorship are simply shadow-boxing with political phantasmagoria of their own making. As for Franklin Roosevelt's broken campaign promises of 1932, he asserts that any politician who maintains complete consistency "assumes his own infallibility and will destroy his country if he stays in power." An invitation to him to deliver a Lincoln's Birthday address last winter was promptly withdrawn after a brief statement of his political views. Explained Republican Taft: "They wanted someone who would damn F. D. R. and all his works...
...Aviation has brought revolutionary changes to a world already staggering with changes. It is our responsibility to make sure in so doing we don't destroy the very things which we wish to protect...