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Word: weapon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that State's Attorney Ulysses Sigel Webb had had informations filed against 23 prominent citizens, including President Arthur Meese and Secretary Frederick Cairns of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce, City Editor Julian Mayar of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. All were charged with kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, assault to commit bodily injury on Green and Nitzberg. The defendants, later reduced to 21. all represented by one law firm, had their $500 bail paid at once by sympathetic friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: After Tar & Feather | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...first Pasteur treatment was given almost 50 years ago. . . . The failure of victims to avail themselves of this formidable weapon . . . can be attributed largely to ignorance, carelessness, indifference and the widespread dissemination of such advice as that found in Mr. Terhune's article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dogman Damned | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...most ambitious effort ever undertaken in the use of the long-known but seldom-employed technique of photographic disproportion. Lavond (Lionel Barrymore) gets back to Paris from an undeserved sojourn on Devil's Island with a handy means of vengeance on the men who put him there. His weapon is a discovery made by a fellow prisoner (Henry B. Walthall) of a way to reduce people to one-sixth of their size. Heretofore the process, which has been used only for such playful purposes as reducing St. Bernard dogs to the size of Chow pups, has had the effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...rays and radium rarely have an effect in retarding the chainlike spread of black cancer, Dr. Frank Earl Adair of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital has found. Surgery is the only weapon, and then only as a prophylaxis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Black Cancer | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...weapon used by Charlotte Corday to murder Jean Paul Marat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Third Class Power? | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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