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Word: draggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exploding the devices from balloons will reduce this local fallout. There will be no tower to vaporize (the balloon hardly counts), and if the balloon is tethered high enough, the rising cloud will drag no hot dust with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms Aloft | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...refreshing contrast to the flashier philanthropists of oildom, she has always insisted on staying quietly behind the scenes. Those who honored her last week at first despaired of getting her to the ceremony at all. Says Methodist Episcopal Bishop A. Frank Smith of Houston: "We practically had to drag her into the hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Quiet One | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...contractor paid by the National Park Service is beginning to drag to safety some of the carved stones that are not too big to load onto trucks. Other carvings will be quarried free from the solid rock. A public campaign has been organized to raise money to supplement the Park Service's meager ($8,000) appropriation, but not all the carvings can be saved from the water. Next best is to copy them accurately, and Sculptor James Hansen and his wife Annabelle are doing this by making impressions in melted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Petroglyph Rescue | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Each year, by conservative estimate, at least 175,000 people in the U.S. die of strokes-accidents to the arteries in the brain. Among 1,800,000 survivors of strokes, a large number are severely para lyzed, and many drag out a hopeless existence, often requiring the care of three or four persons. Yet until recently, despite their frequency and severity, strokes have been neglected by medical researchers because it seemed that so little could be done for their victims. Last week Cornell University's Dr. Irving S. Wright reported the hopeful findings of a just-concluded conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Accidents in the Brain | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...eight in all, the rescue party had to face a fearful decision: whether to try to drag or carry the half-dead boys up the slopes to the refuge hut or to save themselves by making the ascent alone. They chose to leave the boys behind. Day by day the storms raged about their hut; then at last the angry skies cleared, and two more helicopters whirred over the mountain. In three hazardous trips to the Grand Plateau, 13,126 ft. up on the mountain, the helicopters brought down the stranded men, but the pilot decided that he dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALPS: To Woo a Termagant | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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