Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven ragged, unshaven railroad men went on trial for their lives in the theatre of a Moscow club last week. They were three engineers, three firemen, four conductors and a station master, charged with responsibility for the deaths of 68 passengers, injuries to 128 others, in a triple wreck at...
Busier was another Commissar last week, Andrey Andreevitch Andreev, recently appointed Commissar for Transportation. Fortnight ago he utilized his new powers by condemning four railwaymen of the Trans-Siberia Railway to death for criminal negligence (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week he attempted to counteract this unfortunate impression by announcing that...
The abilities by which he did this were not merely those for which Lord Haldane named him the "father of modern jurisprudence." In him, legal acumen and breadth of vision were tempered by a noble humanity. The narrow formalism of law, so often hostile to this quality, seems never to...
...Youngstown last week a playmate accidentally shot Harry Besharre, 13. in the chest, directly over the heart. When Harry reached the hospital he complained less of the pain in his chest than of a gripe in his left groin. X-rays showed a strange accident. The 22-calibre bullet which struck the boy's heart was in the main artery of his left leg. It had traveled there, surmised surgeons, by piercing the heart and entering the left auricle. Contraction of the heart pushed the small lead pellet into the left ventricle, whence further pulsation drove it into...
All the way from Germany by steamer through the Panama Canal, Professor Albert Einstein reached Pasadena last week. He declined to cross the U. S. by rail for fear of raucous rabble, pesky newshawks. Frau Einstein was with him to worry over his comforts. He will study at prim, red...