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Word: acidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese advanced on many fronts. Short, stout, bald, jolly Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, whom the Japanese like to call a "French-type diplomat," and short, popeyed, acid Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma, whose diplomacy smacks more of the German, had much to say after each advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Japan's Dream | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...somehow something was missing. Perhaps it was the failure of Cinemactress Davis to dramatize her difficult subdued role by much more than occasional popping of eyes and acid drawing down of her lips. Perhaps it was the ambiguous character of the Duke, who was never clearly hero, cruel husband, fond lover or murderer. Perhaps it was just the old difficulty of transferring a novel to film, the necessity (recognized as unfortunate by the producers themselves) of telling the story backwards. None of these faults was fatal in itself, but all contributed to the film's serious defect. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Many people know that most of Germany's army trucks, armored cars, gun carriages and motorcycles roll on synthetic rubber. Fewer people are aware that throughout U. S. industry for some time synthetic rubbers-;expensive but highly resistant to oil, acid, sunlight, water-;have been doing many small jobs better than natural rubber can do them. Last week in the U. S. synthetic rubber made news on both these fronts when Standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Synthetic Rubber | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...gaunt, cadaverous, Irish Catholic editorialist, hunched over a typewriter in the office of the Boston Traveler, pounded out these words with satisfaction one morning last fortnight, handed them to a copy boy, sent them on their way to the composing room. Then acid-tongued Joe Toye, 50 years old, with 34 years of news experience behind him, went out to lunch in high good humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Traveler v. Fiihrer | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...Baekeland $1,000,000, several times the minimum sum on which the young inventor had set his mind. At all events, he found himself, at 35, rich enough to do what he pleased. He converted a stable in his back yard into a laboratory. He found that phenol (carbolic acid) and formaldehyde interacted to make a non-melting, non-dissolving solid like nothing in nature. This was Bakelite, foundation stone of the synthetic plastic industry. After forming General Bakelite Co. (later Bakelite Corp.) to exploit his discovery, Baekeland methodically listed 43 industries in which he thought it would be useful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Father of Plastics | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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