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...effort to learn what goes on inside the mouth when people chew, drink or swallow, Dr. Samuel Adams II, 28, and his associates at Rochester, N.Y.'s Eastman Dental Dispensary, have been bugging the bridgework of volunteers with tiny radio transmitters fitted into dummy teeth. Crammed inside each electronic tooth are a transistor, an induction coil, two capacitors, a resistor and a hearing-aid battery- all miniaturized items developed by the Air Force. Once the radio denture is in place, the subject enters a Faraday cage, a metal-mesh enclosure that blocks out most outside electrical disturbances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dentistry: Tuning in Teeth | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...blue, with binoculars around his neck. Menelaus wore pince-nez, and they all used the spittoon and the likker jug. The Trojan War had turned into the U.S. Civil War, and before the play was over, muskets banged, cannon boomed, and that old states-righter, Hector, lost his bridgework to six Greco-Yankee bayonets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Straw Hat: Vicksburg-on-Avon | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

Tripe. In Burlington, Vt., an agricultural journal listed the contents of the stomach of a slaughtered bull: safety pins, bobby pins, cartridge casings, two rubber heels, a key chain, a set of gold dental bridgework, nine pennies, 16 nails, two plastic bags, a toy wristwatch, a gold watchband, a fishing spinner, five clothespins, six can lids, two hypodermic needles, two earrings, a broken pop bottle, 24 bottle caps, half an inner tube, a rubber doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...year-old, self-proclaimed prophet in his headquarters building, blew him, themselves, and five other adults and two children to kingdom come. The killers were identified by fingerprints taken from severed hands found in the rubble; Krishna's death was certified upon examination of his less mortal dental bridgework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Misunderstood Prophet | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...phoniness and gullibility of man, is bathed in a glare of blue-white light as blinding as that from an arc welder's torch. Half a hundred hairy union men tinker stolidly with furniture, electrical cables, fuse boxes and cranes, or peer down in boredom from steel bridgework overhead. Half a hundred tourists stand in the outer shadows, looking as if their shoes pinched. Everybody talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Survivor | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

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