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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Protector. In Berlin, policewomen recommend to girls a device invented by one Emil Pruess. Not to all girls, but to nice girls, above all to nice girls who are pretty. It is called in German, the "Anti-Masher." A nice girl, imperiled, perhaps disastrously, presses against her assailant's body an induction coil attached to the Pruess Battery, which she carries concealed under her dress. Low amperage of 1,000 volts destroys consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventions | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...ruthless German," also as a former student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I recommend that he be "spurlos versenkt." LETTERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...necessity of satisfying applicants for protection. And revision upward is often as difficult as downward revision, because of its effect on private parties to the industrial community. If nations are still unable to levy theoretical tariffs within their borders, it is folly to expect a powerless international commission to recommend tariff revisions at all acceptable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPASSE | 6/1/1926 | See Source »

...perfectly possible for an American woman to go to even the worst places in Paris and compel respect for American ideals. But I do not recommend such an experiment to young and possibly inexperienced persons, who may perhaps not possess what I am not ashamed to call my common sense and judgment. There are times for being modest and speaking low, and there are times for giving good advice out loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...trashy or average individual I recommend TIME, for it reaches their conscious mind manufactured for mental development, and helps to educate the individual to a better plain of life where the brain has subconsciously received its natural selection of concentration to a certain field of science or art. Then TIME becomes obtruse, because it obliterates the mental organs and acts as an individual weed, holding them back from their natural field by its various branches of thought treated with a minor foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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