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...world conferences of both physicians and scientists, alcohol has been pronounced not a stimulant but a poison, and rightfully belongs with strychnine and the rest. Therefore advertising such a poison as a drink for human beings, in my opinion, is not only contrary to the letter of the law, but most of all, to the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...that can easily fire into German territory, France has added two more monsters, Hackenberg defending the great industrial city of Metz, and Hochwald near the Rhine within easy shooting distance of Baden. Hackenberg is a marvel of underground mechanics, equivalent to ten dreadnaughts buried in a mountain, connected by poison-gas-tight tunnels and served by miles of subterranean railways on which projectiles and even guns can be rushed from point to point. Hochwald is almost entirely on the surface, a two-mile breastwork of cement and steel blocking German advance and called by General Max "The Giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Preventative War? | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...sight. Two years ago, comparatively new to Moscow, he flushed Stalin's second wife, Vasya's mother, Nadya Alliluieva, young, shy and serious, in an industrial school studying to become manager of a synthetic silk factory. When she died last November of peritonitis, appendicitis or poison (she was supposed to have tasted everything prepared for her husband several hours before he ate it), she arose from public anonymity in a magnificent Moscow funeral. Last week Correspondent Barnes stood at the door of a classroom and watched Son Vasya wave his hand anxiously at his motherly-looking, sixtyish grammar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin & Son | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

Chatting with the secretaries in the University Museum is sometimes profitable. The other day one of them told us a remarkable little incident. Some time ago, a student who held an Emergency Employment job was instructed, on his arrival at the Museum, to poison a large number of deceased birds, or bird skins. This he proceeded to do, consuming ten hours in the effort. When next he appeared at the scene of his labors, he was told that there was not as much poison as had been counted on, and that he was to remove all the insect deterrent that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/28/1933 | See Source »

...somehow, as his finger ran down the index, it wavered, passed "Vision, 379-398," and paused only be fore "Vitreous Humor, 382." Vitreous Humor turned out not at all funny, but Helen herself was never more seductive than the index to Wheeler's "Science of Psychology." The subtle poison permeated the Vagabond's veins, and he found himself choosing from the shelf "The Mentality of Apes." By degrees this enticed him to "Man and Woman," to "The Freudian Wish," and then to Ruth Shoule Cavan's "Suicide." No Vagabond could abandon that shelf without a glance at "The Aesthetic Attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/18/1933 | See Source »

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