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Word: compartmentation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shields for Humans. In any case, an airborne reactor will probably not have to be shielded on all sides. Only the crew's compartment and perhaps certain instruments need to be protected. This might be done partly by mere distance, e.g., by placing the reactors in the tail or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms Aloft | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Embry got into Spain all right-curled up in the tail compartment of a British agent's car. Meanwhile, in matted beard and filthy clothes, he had witnessed the Germans' triumphal entry into Paris, carefully studied the layout of a strategic airfield, and spent at least one comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flyer's Flight | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

The changing styles in auto body types has led to the elimination of many choice designs which are still to be found among older cars. The windshield that could be opened is still a fond hope of many, but what about such details as a special compartment to hold golf...

Author: By Robert Marsh, | Title: Venerable Heaps Journey Homeward | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

Suitably adapted to one's way of life, the rear compartment can be used for hauling around books and other impedimenta, or with the addition of camp chairs, a folding bed, and a bar, a hearse can carry the super-station wagon motif into the rolling country club stage.

Author: By Robert Marsh, | Title: Venerable Heaps Journey Homeward | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

Died. Frederic C. Dumaine, 85, one of the sharpest of modern-day Yankee trader capitalists; of bronchial pneumonia; in Groton, Mass. At 14 he went to work for the giant Amoskeag cotton mills (for $4 a week); within a few years he was operating in the fishing business, shipbuilding, watchmaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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