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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into U.S. medical libraries each week pours a flood of technical journals in a score of languages. Some are more reliable than others, but essentially all have one characteristic in common: their learned articles are penned by specialists who describe in detail only the experiments which they have personally conducted, report results personally observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Germs of Untruth | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...idealized figure; he is young, cocky and rather callow. The unglamorous Portsmouth barmaid (Patricia Plunkett) with whom he falls in love is as ordinary as their romance. Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film takes on an extraordinary dimension of heroism without heroics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 25, 1953 | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...winner of the senior race is awarded the Darcey Memorial trophy, and is given an 18-inch scale model of a shell, in perfect detail...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Arsenal and Back in 30 Minutes | 5/22/1953 | See Source »

Most of the criticisms were directed at the detail in which the Corporation discussed the case of Wendel H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, particularly the matter of his lying in 1944 to the effect that an applicant for government employment was not a communist, when he know that the person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Applauds Decision on Furry | 5/22/1953 | See Source »

...Africa ... I am to have the chance of dying by poison. The two generals have brought it with them. It's fatal in three seconds. If I accept, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family . . . It's all been prepared to the last detail. I'm to be given a state funeral ... In a quarter of an hour, you . . . will receive a telephone call from the Wagnerschule reserve hospital to say I've had a brain seizure on the way to a conference.' He looked at his watch. T must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fox | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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