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...Senator Bricker and those who support his proposed Constitutional amendment burrow into the basic law, they commit the United States to perpetual international conservatism. Bricker's proposal to limit presidential powers of treaty and agreement would hamstring our future in world government and injure immediate cooperation with allied nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bricker's Unbalanced Check | 2/28/1953 | See Source »

Flying Poison. But one implication of the test explosions is no secret. Atomic bombs set to explode underground are expected to play a big part in future warfare. Air bursts, as used over Japan, affect only the surface of the ground. As both sides burrow deeper, placing their vital installations deep in soil or rock, the atom bombs will go after them, sending rock waves to wreck them as no air waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Underground Blast | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

This organ must be very useful to the snake, say Bullock and Cowles. Rattlesnakes have good eyesight, but they do most of their hunting at night or underground, and so must be grateful for an organ that points out warm prey. A snake crawling down a dark burrow after a warm mouse quivering at the end of it can "see" its prey through its pits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Eye for Heat | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...Senate investigators should burrow much deeper, and much higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Tomorrow is Ground Hog Day. Fearful of its shadow, the CRIMSON will hide in its burrow under the ramshackle press and refuse to emerge until Monday morning. Then, with a new mask, it will fearlessly commence the new term. Drive carefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Stand | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

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