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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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But his discovery was good news to the 800 uranium prospectors now wandering over the vast Colorado Plateau. Some are gnarled, weather-beaten desert rats packing their gear on a mule, looking for telltale yellow uranium streaks on the faces of weathered cliffs. Others are pink-cheeked amateurs with Geiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The Yellow Rocks | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Tibione is more toxic than streptomycin or P.A.S., but most patients suffer only loss of appetite, malaise, and skin eruptions which look like measles. These side effects soon pass, and Tibione (unlike streptomycin) can be given to a patient for months or even years. It is taken in tablet form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Booty | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Virus-laden washings from the nasal secretions of cold sufferers have been dropped into the noses of hundreds of British volunteers. But even with massive doses, only 55% of the willing guinea pigs got colds.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Science v. the Cold | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

But most personal-appearance tours are sponsored by the studios, who pay the stars their regular salaries, plus expenses, to plug their latest pictures. In New York, to tout Pinky and Everybody Does It, Jeanne Grain, William Lundigan, Ethel Waters and Paul Douglas were whisked onto the stages of 23...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Flesh | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

"There are some things I know that I feel sure nobody else can know," says Eleanor Roosevelt in casual explanation of why she wrote the second volume of her autobiography. For more than four years, while Franklin Roosevelt's housekeepers and bodyguards, speechwriters and Cabinet members have been carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One of Those Who Served | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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