Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queried as to how murder victims were able to put up such strenuous resistance to their attackers on some occasions, Dr. Magrath revealed that it is difficult to kill a person instantly by a blow on the head unless administered with a weapon capable of actually damaging the brain. A carpenters hammer, he pointed out, could not be classed as a "dangerous weapon" although a stonecutter's maul is "a different matter...
Father Sarasohn reported that, after hearing a "March of Time," Son Stephen had a nightmare in which the local laundryman chased him down the street with China's most terrible weapon-the BOY- COTT...
...Vickers, Ltd., world's most famed makers of war paraphernalia, were ordered by the Air Ministry last week to stop work on the largest fighting and bombing sea plane ever begun in Great Britain, a monster weapon of destruction with a cruising range of 1,300 mi. "This economy," said a spokesman sadly, "is a distinct blow to the Empire's progress. Had she proved successful, we planned to build another ship almost twice as large and correspondingly more powerful." Vickers, Ltd. will some day build a plane with which New York can be bombed from London or vice versa...
...filed by hand, each gun leaves a characteristic cartridge impression which can be identified "as accurately as a finger-print." Sharp-eyed police picked up a cartridge near the scene of the crime that bore the "fingerprint" of Sacco's gun block. Sacco not only was found with the weapon on his person but admitted owning it for a long time, stating that he had taken it from home just "to keep the children from playing with it." This evidence, not properly stressed at the trial, undoubtedly exerted a strong influence on the juror's verdict. Their first request...
Japan's promised "Big Drive" into China began at Shanghai last week with every modern weapon (except poison gas) including "crawling dragons...