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The peacetime problem is almost as bad, for the radioactive by-products of atomic power plants are exceedingly hard to dispose of. They cannot be blown up a stack near settled communities; rain may bring them down again. They cannot be run down sewers or even into the sea. Probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Problem of the Age | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Such antics were dismissed this week by the editor of the American, Journal of Public Health, Professor C.E.A. Winslow of Yale, as no more helpful than beating tom-toms-"reminiscent of the days of yellow fever and the shotgun quarantine of a century ago, when people were driven by blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Panic | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Well Professor Wild moved in. And what did he find? No garbage disposal pit. What does he do with his waste? Well, he saves it all up and when his garbage cans are all full he piles it in his car and taxies it into the Cambridge incinerator.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garbage in the Back Seat, Or Why Professors Get Gray | 7/9/1946 | See Source »

When he rented a cottage in the hinterland for the summer, Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor of Government, did so with the idea that his landlord was going to dig a garbage disposal pit on the grounds.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garbage in the Back Seat, Or Why Professors Get Gray | 7/9/1946 | See Source »

Mary sent this clerkly lover packing, married Jesse Vineyard, also a lawyer, and bore five children. It was not until after Lincoln's death, in pungent letters to W. H. Herndon, an early Lincoln biographer, that she told why she had refused Lincoln. Excerpts: "Really you catechise me in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lincoln's Missing Links | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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