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...trap which ties a tiny bell around the neck of a trapped rat. Allowed to escape, the rat scares away other rats by his tinkling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Inventions | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...appears, by valid dramatic logic than by the Hays organization edict that Justice always triumphs on the screen, arranges a totally different conclusion. In it, after he has killed Shadow and Garth, Trock is shot dead by one of his own henchmen. Mio, apparently doomed to die in the trap they have set, finds a way to bring the law to rescue Margo and himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...collector working on mammals and reptiles. Since then he has collected live animals for the New York Zoological Park, U. S. Nationa Zoological Park, been field collector for the British Museum, U. S. Biological Sur vey, National Museum, traveled in Italy Mexico and France, becoming "the second American to trap in Europe." An early photographer of wild animals, he has pursued them throughout the West especially in the deserts, gathering material for cowboy stories and visiting more than 20 Indian tribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold & Death | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...gallows built in the jail yard, a canvas stretched overhead to prevent the curious from seeing from neighboring housetops. After taking unusual precautions to have the execution go off swiftly and without a hitch, he took a stand where he could not see Matricide Patrick, and sprung the trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Historic Relic | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...flank-mate, Carey, can hold up his own end with marked ability. It is the center of the Eli team that is most vulnerable, and it is between tackles that field general Roberts will direct his running attack. The Elis have fallen repeatedly for the so-called mouse trap plays which rely upon good timing and cross-blocking, two branches of the game that Harlow has emphasized all fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Squad Takes Harvard's Hopes of Big Three Gridiron Title With Them to Yale Today | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

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