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...catch a wren's song or the sighing wind, and relay the sounds to a watchman five miles away. These pastoral effects, however, are usually filtered out; what the pickups are after are such contact noises as climbing, tunneling, wire-snipping and other signs of sabotage and trespass. Result: as good a watch in fog, blackout, darkness and storm as could be maintained by guards standing elbow to elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fences Have Ears | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...still do not grasp the material." As Parker-Cramer kept mum, a Crimson photographer crashed one of its classrooms, took a picture of seven students cramming, dashed out with a tutor in hot pursuit. The Crimson printed the picture. Parker-Cramer promptly sued eleven of its members for trespass and libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crammers Crushed | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...American Legion have a vital meaning. If some students disagree, they should be polite enough to keep it in the family. Again, there are certain emotions and fetiches--memory for the dead, patriotism--which the ordinary American holds sacred. This ground should be inviolate, and no one should lightly trespass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVERBERATIONS | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...Latin America like the Spanish civil war. Rather than back down because of unpreparedness as Britain was forced to do to Italy in the Mediterranean in 1936, and to Germany at Munich in 1938, an armed U. S. could call the hand of any Dictator who tried to trespass in the 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Arms & the Congress | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...jury of two women, ten men, Obstetrician Bourne presented his case. The doctor argued: "The law of England cannot be so crazy and cruel. ... It cannot possibly be unlawful to avert the consequences of a felonious trespass on a child. In my opinion as an obstetric surgeon it may have been dangerous for a girl of her age to bear a child. Ninety-nine per cent of my colleagues would be agreeable to an operation such as I performed." Many of Britain's best medical men, including old Baron Horder, Physician in Ordinary to the King, trooped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Test Case | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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