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...feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow is to snip off all a captive's buttons, send him home holding up his pants. One strategist discovers that the way to fix that is to fight without clothes until a war chest of replacement buttons can be accumulated. The children discover what an angry futility war is. Director Daroy discovers...
Four hundred uniformed young women tend the machines which sew and fill sacks of granulated sugar, fold and fill boxes of lump sugar in a factory at Lille, France. Flitting fingers, fixed eyes, bent heads heed every zip, snip, swish, zoop, bupp, bopp of the machines-60 seconds every minute, 60 minutes every hour, 40 hours every week...
...Into court before the King's Bench Division were haled last week some of Britain's greatest dailies, including Viscount Rothermere's Evening News and Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Reason: the censors who snip out offending paragraphs before newsorgans can be offered for sale on British stands had failed to snip out accounts of the Constitution Hill incident in which a revolver hurtled from the hand of Jerome Bannigan and fell beneath the hoofs of King Edward's horse† (TIME, July...
TIME said: "The basic patent on Monopoly was obtained by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Phillips who . . . developed the idea years ago. . . ." Her patent was granted in 1924.-ED. Snips Sirs: Let the chronic savers of TIME throw their hands on high at such blasphemy as snipping the pages of TIME, but we announce a new game. We snip out the pictures of such notables as we feel everyone should know and present them to our guests to identify. Such red faces and stuttering! We now have about 75 pictures and we are still going strong. It's pleasant pastime...
...fade from the evolutionary picture after 1900, when Johann Gregor Mendel's work on the heredity of garden peas was rediscovered and the theatre of heredity was found to be in the genes and chromosomes of the germ cells. The classic experiment in disproof of Lamarckism is to snip off the tails of generation after generation of newborn mice. If this acquired lack of tail could be inherited, the mice should be born with smaller & smaller tails; but the baby mice persist indefinitely in appearing with fine long tails...