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This in Japanese eyes put upon the murder an aspect which caused numerous Japanese, including two schoolgirls, to prick themselves last week and write with their blood passionate pleas for mercy which Presiding Judge Major General Seisaburo Sato had read out in court. "Boo-hoo!" sobbed the Samurai's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blood & Tears | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Heeding pleas of motorists that something be done about nails and sharp metal scraps on the highways, the Michigan Highway Department lately worked out a trailer which, hauled behind a truck, sucks up metal by magnetic attraction, feeds it into a hopper. The sweeper costs 35? per mile to operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetic Sweeper | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

The publicity campaign began two months ago when Columbia University announced that Dr. Hartman had invented a tooth desensitizer which prevented pain while the dentist drilled to prepare a cavity for a filling. On grounds that Columbia's University Patents, Inc. wanted to patent the desensitizer Dr. Hartman, alarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dental Pain Preventer | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

It is a matter of fact that England is protecting her imperial brood. If direct evidence is not enough, then indirect evidence comes to reinforce the verdict. When Japan had begun its Manchurain adventure, England remained sublimely all of to the many pleas for naval action against the aggressor. Now...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAINTED SINNERS AND HYSTERICAL HEROES | 11/19/1935 | See Source »

The war in Ethiopia had just driven from Leadership of Britain's Labor Party that uncompromising pacifist, "Old George" Lansbury. With invincible stubbornness Mr. Lansbury remained unmoved by the frantic pleas of practical Labor politicians of the old guard. Said they, in effect: "Don't you see, George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Nigger Election | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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