Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The morning after TIME hit the newsstands the Science Department's telephone got busy with readers wanting to know more about the ultrasonic siren and its inventor. The Public Library called to say that they were getting inquiries for Audio Engineering but couldn't locate it on any...
Painter Tom Benton, clad only in a pair of blue jeans, was busy getting in his hay on Martha's Vineyard when the good news arrived. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts had just spent $2,000 for Benton's latest portrait, New England Editor (see cut...
Although Stillman Infirmary has treated no cases of heat suffocation during the heat wave, activity around the Yard slowed practically to a walk yesterday afternoon when the full force of Old Sol hit residents. Observers in Widener Library and the Boylston Reading Room reported a distinct falling off of intellectual...
In Manchuria, the Government's hold was weaker than at any time in the 19 months since General Tu Yu-ming's troops recovered control from the Japanese. General Tu still held Mukden and Changchun (the capital), but the Communists camped on his line of communication with the...
Fisherman-Naturalist Knight, 56, a retired banker, lives in central Pennsylvania, and he knows a lot about fishing even in places he has never fished. When not busy casting in his favorite trout stream (which he calls "the River X" to keep the crowds away), Knight writes books on wild...