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...confessions without using a rubber hose (a secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crime Seminar | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...wild turkeys, Williamston takes pride in the slim, resolute figure of Katie Philpot marching dutifully through the north end of town every morning and afternoon, her slim back bent under a weight of farm papers, religious tracts and mail-order literature, her slim legs encased in black cotton hose below neat knickers of Post Office grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mail Ladies | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...temporary prison at the citadel of St. Martin-de-Ré, in the Bay of Biscay, the convict awaits the sailing of the plodding 3,800-ton "hellship" La Martinière, formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives in 50 or 60 days at St. Laurent, on the Maroni River dividing Surinam* and French Guiana, where after another brief internment, most convicts are assigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slow Death | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Central Park Zoo, who last week gave birth for the first time. Despite zookeepers' precautions, Rosie butted her newly-born unmercifully, refused it food. The baby hippo, a 52-lb. male, was moved to a separate cage, fed goat's milk and cream through a hose. But sad-eyed and dejected by his solitude, he grew weaker, in five days' time died of internal injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mother Hate | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...birds was the Pelicanus Americanus (American White Pelican), an ugly creature with a long double chin; the other was the Phoenicopterus Ruber (American Flamingo), a crimson-colored monstrosity with a long hose-like neck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUKE UNIVERSITY TO COPY HARVARD EXHIBITION CASES | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

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