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...uleins asked if something couldn't be done about Russian soldiers molesting German women. Said the commandant: "Always carry some ink with you. In case of distress, pour it over the soldier's clothes. Since every soldier has but one uniform, I can easily find out the culprit from the ink blot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Russian Rorschach Test | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...kitchen, then buried itself 30 feet in the Stepney ground. At that time air-raid wardens laid the damage to an antiaircraft shell. Recently Mrs. Fry noticed that the ground around her repaired kitchen had been sinking. That gave the bomb disposal experts a clue to the real culprit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE BIG BANG NEVER CAME | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

When these academic offences are sufficiently serious, the headmaster intervenes and flogs the culprit. He does this with a birch rod [and] the procedure is attended by time-honoured ceremony and ritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...that the present-day frequency of "elbow chips" and bone growths means that players are less durable than of old. Says Doc, who often talks the way sport-writers write: "Today's crop is obviously better educated and, if anything, up to a faster type of baseball. The culprit in the injury woodpile is the development of trick pitching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Doc | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

When Jessup finished, there was a moment of silence in the packed hall. An aide whispered to Vishinsky; he did not move. In his self-imposed silence, he gave a striking impression of being a culprit at the bar. Then he strode out. To reporters who tried to speak to him, he snarled: "None of you newspapermen is of good faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Of Good Faith | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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