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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frankfort, Ky., where the oldest U. S. cell block (1798) is still in use. Several Southern prisons use the disciplinary strap, but not Kentucky. Said the late Warden John Chilton, dean of U. S. wardens, who died six months ago: "If I used a strap on those hillbillies they would lay for me till their dying day. I'm a hillbilly myself, so I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stone Upon Stone | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...trap the heart's action current they would strap two electrodes to the subject's chest, one above the heart's top, the other about six inches lower. From the electrodes ran 60-ft. wires to a "cardiotachometer," which Dr. Boas devised. Vacuum tubes in the cardiotachometer amplified the heart action current which thereupon operated a counting device and a recording pen. The long wires enabled the subject to practice most of his usual occupations. The counter recorded the total number of his heart beats over any desired period (most importantly for study, during sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Inconstant Heart | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Although more quietly than before, the fight for woman's rights is still going on. Getting the vote was not the only thing, even in Lucy Stone's day. Those who had hoped to silence the eternal feminine with such concessions as the cigarette, the subway strap, and Radcliffe are doomed to disappointment. While militant ladies in Washington are insisting on laws to do away with all laws discriminating between the sexes, the Presbyterian General Council has gone on record as favoring the elimination of such inequality as exists between the sexes within the church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROCK OF AGES | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

...broken parachute strap brought death to 23-year-old Jumper Jack McEleven at Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Somewhere | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...resist, digging his heels into the earth. His big brother climbed into the plane's cockpit to show that the monster would not bite. They lifted Julius into the machine. Trembling with mute terror he clung to his mother, who also trembled while they put a stout strap about the boy's waist and fastened it securely to the plane seat. They put double straps about his arms. He tried to scream. He strained at his fastenings, but could only force his hands slightly upward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mute Terror | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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