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Word: connects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, Mrs. Alben Berkley told reporters that she did not like to be addressed as "The Veepess": "Somehow or other it sounds like a snake. I guess I connect it with theword viper. I'd really much rather be called Mrs. Veep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Discoveries & Disclosures | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Issue Skirted. In London, the trade journal Tailor & Cutter denounced pajamas, advised how to keep a nightshirt from creeping up during sleep: "Put your garters on upside down and connect the fasteners with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...long led the world in communications. But in its awesome postwar expansion, U.S. industry discovered that the old communications methods were not good enough. The telephone, telegraph and teletype lines that connect the scattered plants of big corporations were limited in use, expensive to install and maintain. As a solution, industry is turning to another medium: microwave transmission,* i.e., ultra-high-frequency radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: The Mighty Waves | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Planets connect with a dull thud in this rehash of an earlier science-fiction thriller made last year by the same producer. There are some shots of a familiar-looking space ship and rumors of an impending collision between the earth and Bellus, but the picture spends most of its time on a cold love triangle between a hot flyer, a hot woman scientist, and a drab doctor. Unfortunately the picture never shows how the world would act as Doomsday approached...

Author: By W. B., | Title: When Worlds Collide | 12/4/1951 | See Source »

Sound Effects. So the Pfizer people selected a resonant sow and recorded both her mealtime grunt and the joyous squeals of her litter. That does the trick, says Pfizer. When the deep-sleeping pigs hear the sound effects, they wake up in a flash and connect with rows of rubber nipples charged with Terralac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pigs Without Moms | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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