Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Verdun attackers as well as defenders died in thousands. Such mutual slaughter captured men's imaginations and the head lines. Last week's battle was far more ominous from a military standpoint...
...crowd out English sparrows. Now the starlings are a great nuisance in some eastern cities, while the replacement of horses by automobiles hit the sparrows harder than the starlings did. When rabbits were taken into Australia they proliferated enormously for lack of natural enemies. Wholesale slaughter has not suppressed them. Australia also had a distressing experience with the prickly pear - but in this case there was a happy ending. The prickly pear story, abstracted from a publication of the Imperial Bureau of Pastures & Forage Crops, was told last week in Science by Botanist Francis Ramaley of the University of Colorado...
...Varsity slaughter, every man except three out of the squad of 15 participated. Ed Buckley, with 15 points, and Bud Finegan with 14, were the top scorers of the evening. Kay led the Wesleyan attack with eight points...
...could Reid, and our ends have been Harrison the Bulldog passer and knocking him Zilly on every play. The game shapes up as Mosely a one-sided affair to me, though it might be close. We'll either Knapp them at the tape or Ellis it'll be a slaughter...
...that the time has come to send men and ships. But it is there that we must steel ourselves to say no. If lives are to be lost in defense of our nation, we must not meet the enemy on his own terms and send our men to futile slaughter." (From an editorial entitled "Masters of Our Destiny...