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Word: carbons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professes confidence that the carbon-copy symbols will cause no confusion. Officials of NETV-whose program Anyone for Tennyson? is being broadcast on public TV nationwide-doubt that. Says Program Manager Ron Hull: "If you see that in New York, you're going to say, 'Those Nebraska hicks stole NBC's symbol.' And that's not true." Lawyers for both networks are pondering whether NETV can claim prior use and force NBC to dust off the peacock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peacock v. the Pea | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...what "sports" means--it means reading. Particularly these days when the sun seems to be setting just about the time you're finally waking up, and it's getting just too damn cold to keep putting on those short frilly pants and go slogging around the River inhaling carbon monoxide...

Author: By Chris Daly, | Title: The Daly Papers | 12/16/1975 | See Source »

Powerful Pinch. To attach the arm, Dr. Vert Mooney and his colleagues inserted three "buttons" or fasteners through the skin in the stump. (The buttons can permanently protrude through the skin without promoting infection because they are coated with pyrolytic carbon,* which Mooney says forms an antibacterial seal.) The doctors connected two of the buttons to the arm's median and ulnar nerves with stainless-steel coils, and wired the third button to another carbon plug that serves as a ground. They then connected all buttons to wires in the prosthesis itself, linking them to sensors in the hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The $40,000 Arm | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...extremely hard and pure form produced by burning a derivative of carbon in a blend of extremely hot gases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The $40,000 Arm | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...thirds water, the rest nitrogen, carbon, calcium and a myriad of other chemicals-worth only about $5, even at today's inflated prices. That is the strange machinery of the human body. It appears in unprecedented and almost incredible detail this week on the Public Broadcasting Service (see facing page). Produced by the National Geographic Society and Wolper Productions, created by Irwin Rosten and narrated by Actor E.G. Marshall, the hour-long film is entitled, naturally enough, The Incredible Machine. It uses microscopy, X rays and telescopic lenses tiny enough to penetrate the body's innermost recesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fantastic Voyage | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

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