Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rules: evenly matched forces (not more than 5,000 men a side), neutral umpires, short duration (two or three weeks). "The object of each army would be the capture of as many as possible of the enemy and of their company banners and regimental flags. . . . The agreed and standardized weapon would probably be a padded wicker helmet and a loin-protector. . . . I suggest that the first reformed war should be fought on Swedish territory? admirably suited to maneuver?between Italy and France, those two most gloryloving powers...
...over, should cease to do so." Besides "the situation created by the Peace of Versailles," Major Bratt sees two imminent threats to world peace: 1) Bolshevism, "which will find it consistent with its plans for world revolution to make the conflagration as wide as possible," 2) the air weapon, which he thinks will make the position of neutral states impossible...
...companion, Pilot Clyde Ice shot a coyote, landed, tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...
...finally, the Round Table breaks down, enough spontaneous violence is expected to give His Majesty's Government enough provocation to use at strategic points the weapon of massacre, so effective when Brigadier-General Dyer sprayed with machine gun bullets and killed some 400 Indians at Amritsar in 1919. General Dyer received the censure of the House of Commons by a vote of 230 to 129, was endorsed by the House of Lords 129 to 86, and finally accepted from the Morning Post a large sum of money spontaneously made up by individual Britons...
...incidents Reporter Lavine describes are common, he says, are typical of police methods in all large U. S. cities. Says he: "I have written to little purpose if I have not demonstrated that the third degree is much more than merely an occasional or a secondary weapon in the hands of the police; it is actually the main reliance of the police in obtaining information from stubborn prisoners. . . . The only place where no protection can be guaranteed [to the freeborn U. S. citizen] is in the police station. Once you pass its green lights you are beyond...