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...this chemical sterilizes the soil against weeds for two years, has given promising results on railway roadbeds and highway shoulders. ¶ Ammonium sulfamate. This new chemical, recently put on the market by Du Pont, has been so successful against poison ivy that enthusiasts predict the complete eradication of that noxious weed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The War Against Weeds | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...asked, when the Supreme Court rendered such illiberal decisions? "There is nothing," he protested, "that I more deprecate than the use of the Fourteenth Amendment ... to prevent the making of social experiments that an important part of the community desires . . . though the experiments may seem futile or even noxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Dissenter | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...vicarage of Portsea was only his basic training in social problems. Soon Vicar Garbett was graduated to be Bishop of Southwark (pronounced Sutherk), the South London section which includes Lambeth, Bermondsey, Battersea, Tooting and Greenwich. Portsea was a British Hell's Kitchen. Southwark was the noxious central inferno. In this massive slum, hundreds of thousands of people lived in "the greatest area of unbroken poverty in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peculiar Revolutionist | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Every morning but Sunday at 5:25 the notoriously noxious air of St. Louis is purified by the natural twang of real mountaineer goings on. These upcountry proceedings continue for an hour over CBS Station KMOX, a 50,000-watter with some 2,500.000 steady listeners. They emanate from a radio group known as Cousin Emmy and Her Kin Folks. There is square-dance music, a female duo singing something like Back in the Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cousin Emmy | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...Francisco.] Sure, exhilarated at the prospect of getting a splash of lewisite-even a feeling of elation at the prospect of seeing arms, legs and torsos flung into the treetops. You guys make me sick . . . almost as sick as I'd be after a whiff of noxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1942 | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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