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Word: densest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Sunday: "Tomorrow is the first day of spring. Neither the Soviet blockade at the Elbe nor winter's ice or snow have kept food, medical aid and coal from coming into the city. Attempts to scare the population have failed ... It must be clear even to the densest and most ill-willed Communists that their tactics are not succeeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Spring Cleaning | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...oxygen, 500 atoms of helium, and 5,000 atoms of hydrogen (still to be burned). The same proportions of atoms exist in the near vacuum of interstellar space. Not only do the universe's largest bodies behave in much the same fashion as its smallest atoms; its densest matter has the same basic composition as its most dilute matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Another 3 Billion Years | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...nuclei derived from heavy water. Individual atoms have been smashed, but in a bomb atoms must explode in quantity, each disintegrating atom setting off others. The new Nazi experiments are said to be along lines suggested by the composition of the "White Dwarf," companion of Sirius, which is the densest known star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: V-3? | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...Bronx, where 22 people have been bitten by rabid dogs in the last few weeks. Though there have been no deaths, New York City (which has the densest canine population in the world-600,000 dogs, 30,000 dog bites a year) ordered that all stray Bronx dogs be destroyed. Promptly Bronx citizens beat up all the dogcatchers, one so badly that he had to stay home next day. After that, the dogcatchers had police protection. When 812 Bronx dogs (80 with licenses) had been destroyed, feeling ran so high that the city set aside a vacant building where licensed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mad Dog! | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...greatest fire does not always accompany the densest smoke. The national corporations make plenty of smoke, but most seniors find employment in the relatively smaller companies. Here, too, the Placement Office has its contacts. Few representatives from these companies will be sent to the College, but job orders will come by mail and telephone and interviews for seniors are then arranged at the company's offices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/20/1940 | See Source »

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