Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only 23 more times do the watchmen tear the pages off the calendar, and then it is Friday, September 24. The portals of historic Memorial Hall swing wide once more. Once more, in the three hundred and second year of Harvard, an entering Class, the Class of 1941, starts its course of Harvard history making...
Statistics show that where tear gas is used, as compared to firearms, tear gas does not produce casualties; and other forms of weapons used on such occasions leave wounded and dead behind...
Comparing the specific data referred to in your editorial as against 15 years of practical manufacturing experience, and the actual use of tear gas by police and banks, justifies the following deduction...
...have medical reports, following examinations of employes working in tear gas over long periods of time. These reports show no ill effects resulting from continuous presence with the gas in regular factory operation. We have discharged complete tear gas systems in scores of tests in banks to prove efficiency and harmlessness. In many such bank tests, over 100 people have been gassed with no ill effects. On 26 occasions, banks have released their Federal tear gas system and successfully stopped attempted holdups, driving the bandits from the bank. Customers and employes in the banks showed no after effects...
...concerned with debating the relative merits of tear gas and guns, TIME reported accurately the American Medical Association's conclusion that "enough irritation . . . may be produced by tear gases to pave the way for secondary bacterial infection...