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Rain Brain. An electronic grid that touches off a buzzer alarm in the house when rain strikes it was put on the market by Micro-Moisture Controls. Inc. of Mineola. N.Y. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

Shortly thereafter the Crimson exploded to clinch the game, and Yale was unable to keep the varsity from building up its margin. When the final buzzer sounded, the happy, near-capacity crowd rose to sing. "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard Want Blodnick Today...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Five Finally Beats Yale Jinx, 66-54 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...Forrestal. Behind his special, direct-line White House telephone, the man from Detroit propped a framed motto which read, "Nulle Bastardo Carborundum"-assembly-line Latin for "Don't let the bastards wear you down." Then, draping a cigarette out of the corner of his mouth, he rang a buzzer twice and an aide, Marine Colonel Carey Randall, appeared in the office doorway. Said Charlie Wilson, looking up over the plastic rims of his glasses: "Let's get to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man from Detroit | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...irradiation, the dogs were placed in the Skinner Box for their usual hour work-period. The canines discriminated the light as before, remaining idue during the 10 minutes it was on. What followed next, though, was singular and unexpected. Not only would the animals refuse to work during the buzzer's blaring, but either stopped work before the buzzer sounded, or did not go to work after it stopped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tests Show Radiation Causes Abnormal Fear | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

...those that continued to work through the buzzer as before, each dog manifested fear in some form. Their hair bristled, their tails went between their legs, or they worked at a decreased rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tests Show Radiation Causes Abnormal Fear | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

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