Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...premature baby, Patty was a victim of retrolental fibroplasia (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949), an increasingly common cause of infant blindness...
British gun designers turned to a much smaller weapon: a .276-cal. automatic rifle with a light slug and a relatively low, 2,300-ft.-per-second muzzle velocity. U.S. experts who saw the British .276-cal. perform at Ft. Benning, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 20) call it a "pipsqueak" weapon. They do not like the .276-cal.'s high, telescope-like sight: it could snap off in battle, become useless in foggy or muddy terrain...
...many years later an itinerant Brazilian claimed to have traveled the length of the river. In 1931, an American, Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, also made the trip (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931), reported what he declared were the exact coordinates of the Orinoco's source: Lat. 2° 25 min. 30 sec. North, Long. 63° 45 min. 31 sec. West. Then, in 1943, a Brazilian boundary-setting expedition claimed that it had found the source 30 miles to the west. U.S. Army flyers from British Guiana helped to confirm the location of the river's origin...
...Where two human guinea pigs died because of a mistake in drug dosage last summer (TIME, Aug...
...rules, Physicist Hans Thirring of Austria may speculate freely about atomic weapons on the basis of what is known to all the world's physicists. In the latest issue of Britain's Discovery, Dr. Thirring discusses the possibilities of radiological warfare, an old favorite of his (TIME, Aug...