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While praising Harvard's excellent record at a time when 'destructive pranks reach an all-time high," Dean Bender felt that the perennial spirit of havoc that precedes each Yale game demands a clarification of University policy regarding the unlimited use of spray-guns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suspension Punishment for Eli Vandalism, Says Bender | 11/18/1947 | See Source »

...said Zacharias, now has atom bombs 50 times more powerful than those that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But there are other weapons in the new alphabet of destruction: 1) bacteriological bombs containing either botulinus toxin or psittacosis virus; 2) a U.S. -developed biological spray that "can wipe out all forms of life in a large city"; 3) some sort of military application of cosmic rays which is now, he thought, being developed by Russian scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Alphabet of Destruction | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...reason was Siqueiros' bold use of bold materials. Industrial enamels like Peroxylin and Vinylite he applied, sometimes with a spray gun, to Masonite and Bakelite. They made his paintings loom bright and powerful as new trucks. But there was a deeper reason: Siqueiros had at last taken Eisenstein's advice and ditched the propaganda art of his own manifesto. Illustrative documentary painting of social injustice might be fine for educating the masses, but by now it bored Siqueiros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint & Pistols | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

When she came into Boston harbor four days later with a broom tied to her mast in token of a clean sweep rescue, she was given a tumultuous reception. Small craft swarmed around her, fireboats threw spray, whistles blew. Thousands lined the waterfront to see her. City officials and Coast Guard brass came aboard to offer captain and crew their congratulations and a horde of reporters descended on the Sky Queen's passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Broomstick at the Mast | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...painless substitute for the hypodermic needle was reported last week. The revolutionary gadget, called the "hypospray," is a kind of air gun that shoots an injection under the skin in a spray so fine that the patient usually does not feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shot Without Pain | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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