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Enthusiastic members of Bamberg's Prehistoric -Society, led by Dr. Bruno Miiller, did the actual digging. Six feet below the modern floor of the cave, they found a jumbled mass of human bones. Sorted-out and carefully studied, the bones proved to be the remains of not three but 40 young women, none of them more than 20 years old. They may or may not have been virgins, says Dr. Kunkel. but "the skulls and bones are of such fine structure and regular proportions that they must have belonged to girls who, even today, would be considered beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lament for 40 Virgins | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...them concerns C. H. Miiller, a TIME subscriber in Caracas, Venezuela, who asked us for help on an urgent transportation problem. "I am in a fix," Mr. Müller wrote. "My wife (with our 16-month-old child) wants to visit her aging parents at Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores. My wife's parents are old and sick, and she wants to see them as soon as possible. Would you be kind enough to find out a way for her to travel by air from Venezuela to the Azores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Philadelphia's El-Tronics Inc. took no chances. In magazine ads it bragged: "At last, an inexpensive Geiger-Miiller counter set [a radioactivity detector] for only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...radiation. In the earth's absorbent atmosphere most natural and electric light rays, except clear sunlight, contain almost no radiation in the far ultraviolet (below 3,000 angstroms*); but an open flame or spark radiates appreciable amounts in that range. Weisz developed a photoelectric adaptation of the Geiger-Miiller counter (usually used for detecting radio activity), which responds to a flame or spark but not to ordinary light. Its likely first use: in airplanes - to give warning of flaming motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fire! | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...when Bishop Abe was chosen, the Japanese Government stipulated that he should hold office for life. The Methodists obediently changed their constitution. With the favor of Japan's nationalist rulers, Bishop Abe may receive powers over Japanese Christians similar to those which Hitler's Reich-Bishop Ludwig Miiller tried in vain to use on German Protestants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and the Emperor | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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