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Word: cosmically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Requested to explain cosmic rays in a five-minute speech at the New York World's Fair illumination ceremony, Physicist Albert Einstein objected strenuously that a whole volume would not be enough, finally made a stab at it in 700 words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Philadelphia Story (by Philip Barry; produced by The Theatre Guild Inc.) shows: 1) Katharine Hepburn back on Broadway after years in cinema; 2) Philip Barry back at smart comedy after his cosmic flight in Here Come the Clowns; 3) The Theatre Guild back in the money after a season of disastrous flops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...being tried in France for refrigerated meats. The material was latex-pure natural rubber altered just enough to be workable. The trick sounded good to Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge, Mass., which was already using latex to make low-cost balloons ($2.25) for high-altitude meteorological and cosmic ray observation. The company's researchers set to work devising a commercial method for wrapping poultry and meat in latex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cryovac | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...would be hard to find three more dissimilar business associates than Bror Dahlberg, Walter S. Mack Jr. and Wallace Groves. Mr. Dahlberg is a smoothfaced, vigorous Swede of 58 who collects Napoleonana, has an ornate office almost as big as Hitler's, runs his business with cosmic scope. Mr. Mack is a relaxed Harvardman with intense blue eyes and nonchalance about money; he likes to consider himself a sort of clinicist for big business. Mr. Groves is a bald, shy Southerner whose financial talents have earned him several million dollars, a reputation as "silent man of Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Design for Making Money | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...microcosmic scale. Enormous voltages impressed on sub-atomic particles will accelerate them to enormous speeds, but they are so infinitesimally small that the quantity of energy is negligible by ordinary standards.* But in the atomic world a force of 200,000,000 volts has hitherto been recorded only in cosmic ray showers, never in laboratory-created particles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Accident | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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