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Word: kill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1920
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This organization did help to kill John Barleycorn, yet there were at the same time many other and more powerful forces working for the overthrow of Demon Rum. But the Women's Christian Temperance Union flatter themselves, if they believe that alone they can subdue Lady Nicotine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEMPERANCE AND ITS APPLICATION | 10/29/1920 | See Source »

...referred to as robbers, he develops hatred for them as men that have in some way gained the wealth that should be his, and when this hatred reaches a certain intensity in the muddled thoughts of a man with unbalanced brain, he is ready to throw a bomb and kill any number of people in order to wreak revenge on the wicked bankers that demagogues and their approving newspapers have taught him to hate. --Boston Commercial Bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stirrers Up of Mischief | 9/29/1920 | See Source »

...supreme geniuses, or does it cause the finished product, the college graduate to emerge from his own particular Alma Mater with the same ideas and the conventional outlook upon the problems of life as is possessed by the thousands of other youths who also are college bred? Does college kill the genius by making him conventional, and does it make the fool over, because he has been trained in the ways and thoughts of intelligent men? If so, education is a detriment to the men who are ultra brilliant, and the world is bound to lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 4/17/1920 | See Source »

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