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...Suicides and murders by means of potassium cyanide in Japan are increasing. Chemist Matsutaro Nishida of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Board announced discovery of a substance which, if mixed with the poison, would emit an odor so foul that it would deter would-be suicides from drinking it, warn victims of murder-plotters...
...bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism are that when the beams (actually wood) strike something they emit a hollow thump instead of a ringing clank, and that when the inevitable victim falls from the crane to his death, a ludicrous dummy is seen tumbling against the backdrop...
After years of complaints from residents of Mt. Kisco, Katonah and Bedford Hills, N. Y., President Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central Railroad, which runs through these swank suburban towns, last week visited them, listened carefully, agreed to put whistles on his trains which will emit a soothing "Beep" instead of a shrill "Toot...
Some time later the Maintenance Department saw fit to emit a howl when it discovered these weapons in the rooms of several students to whom they had been loaned for use as table ornaments...
Until Columbia University's trustees began to consume a Manhattan banquet last week, they scrupulously refused to emit the names of those to whom they had decided to award the annual Pulitzer Prizes lor Journalism and for belles-lettres...