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Word: poison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just for kicks, what did the papers say when they first heard of poison gas in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...After they first used poison gas early in 1915, the Germans claimed it was no more "barbarous" than shrapnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Better Mousetrap. A disposable, plastic, cylindrical trap that relieves the housewife of having to touch a dead mouse was brought out by Shaw-Randall Co., Inc. of Pawtucket, R.I. (The mouse, attracted by odor of grain, walks into "Sanitrap," eats poison pill, is paralyzed and killed. Tube, mouse and all are then thrown away.) Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...served under Colonel Schwable in World War II, and if the occasion should arise, I, for one, would be proud to serve under him again. What is expected of the American fighting man of today ? Is he expected to follow General Dean's suggestion and carry some deadly poison to take if capture seems imminent? Are the quartermasters to issue cyanide pills along with other combat gear? Are we, a Christian nation, now to become devoted to harakiri? Ridiculous! But that is the only logical sequence if Colonel Schwa-ble is not completely exonerated and restored to a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...designers want to do. First step would be the addition of an ingredient that yields free neutrons (L17 might be a good one). Next step would be to surround the bomb with 3 casing of an element that absorbs neutrons and becomes radioactive. Such a doctored H-bomb might poison a whole country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: THE MAKING OF THE H-BOMB | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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