Word: destroyer
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...belly. Down this mimic Rue de la Paix wealthy Brazilians, Argentinians and Chileans have strolled to buy in smart ship shops every French luxury imaginable, including swank motor cars. Last week the fire, starting in an unoccupied first-class cabin, swept up to the radio room, roared down to destroy the Rue de la Paix with all its luxuries, spurted from portholes with such fury that it burned up the ropes of the first lifeboat lowered, dumped seven seamen into...
...screen, is almost entirely lost on the stage. As if to atone for lack of convincing atmosphere, those responsible for Girls in Uniform have made the entente between Manuela and the teacher unwholesomely explicit-a doubtful benefit. And to cap that, Manuela of the play actually manages to destroy herself instead of making an abortive stab at it. Point of the cinema was that the frustrated little girl did not escape from the school, an institution not intended to be merely the scene of juvenile tantrums but something far more organic, the inflexibility of life itself...
...direction of able, trained coaches. Certainly that policy has been adhered to by Harvard for many years, and its success argues forcibly for continuation. To effect such drastic economies as an immediate balancing of the budget probably necessitates, would, bring about two results fatal to that success. It would destroy the fine body of coaches that the H.A.A. has gathered together during the last few years; it would, in that destruction, remove what is perhaps one of the greatest incentives for participation in group athletics--the desire for the improvement which professional coaches can effect. It would sweep away...
...point is that essentially the same philosophy was dominant in the Allied nations. A blatant nationalism, a selfish imperialism, and a ruthless economic war on all rivals was characteristic of all the nations of the world in 1914. There was a profoundly evil philosophy there which needed to be destroyed. But there is little evidence that the Allies fought with the determination to destroy that philosophy and it is far from certain that the Allied victory accomplished its destruction...
...United States would broadcast such a violation of the truth.... The Democrats have used deliberate misrepresentations and colossal falsehoods.... The charge that the Supreme Court has been controlled by any political party is an atrocious one.... He is proposing changes and so-called new deals which would destroy the very foundations of our government...