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...thankless task on their hands in striving to find means with which to prolong life and crush out sickness and disease. As human nature apparently stands at present, each person who is saved today from the ravages of consumption and pneumonia is one more to serve tomorrow as a target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student of history reads with a secret feeling of fellowship...
...Louisville Herald: " Florida alligator hunters do not ever miss their target...
...Louisville Herald: " Florida alligator hunters do not ever miss their target...
...other hand, a devotee of crime. He likes to see a good skull or a good safe well cracked. He enjoys the spinal titillation of secret and malign forces lurking in the darker chapters, ready to spring upon the superhero, who loses no opportunity of making himself their target...
...Service pilots receive nasty assignments. Last week five officers had the dangerous task of towing target gliders 500 yards behind them, while anti-aircraft guns fired away in pitch darkness broken intermittently by searchlights. The gunners destroyed three of the target gliders, demonstrating the effectiveness of anti-aircraft defense even at night, and the fliers came down safely. But the slightest miscalculation would have meant death. Hundreds of persons at Willoughby Beach and Old Point Comfort (Va.) witnessed the manuevers, heard shells burst 5,000 feet above their heads...