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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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One night last week German Police Sergeant Wilhelm Kniest was shot dead in a Kladno street, and the Nazis took advantage of the incident to throw their weight around. (Several days later a Czech policeman was killed at Nachod, 80 miles northeast of Prague. There the Nazis ordered only a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crime and Crime | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Barrick was clapped into prison, where he threw two "whizbangs" (fake convulsions), demanded ten grains of morphine. (Average pain-killing dose: between 1/6 and ¼ grain.) Strangely enough, after several dopeless days, he did not become violent or sick, as most addicts do, but calmed down, gained weight.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pulverized Poison | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

But here as everywhere there is a dilemma and a compromise required. An unmitigated policy of giant-killing produces a topheavy teaching structure: luxuriant foliage at top, but no roots to feed and support. A continuous effort to garner big names means neglect of the large body of instructors who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWINKLE, TWINKLE | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

NACA's research director, Dr. George William Lewis, was proudest of a new wing developed during the past year. Approximately one-half the drag, i.e., the speed-killing characteristic, of the modern airplane is caused by its wings. Most of the wing drag is caused by air friction along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Future View | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Near Paris, Tex., irascible Farmer Marion Mackey lost his temper at his neighbors' trespassing chickens, grabbed his shotgun, told his wife: "I'm going to kill that whole damn outfit." Marching to the farm of Neighbor James Winchel Snow, 79, Marion Mackey began shooting. When he had mowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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