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Word: dryer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calculation. At the University of Chicago, Sherman Dryer, director of the Mutual Broadcasting System's recent 30-minute simplification of Einstein's relativity theory, calculated that during their six-weeks condensation period his staff had read 25 books, written 121 pages of notes, drunk 85 cups of black coffee, taken 30 aspirins, and used up 22 erasers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...University of Chicago's The Human Adventure radio program is not a new idea. It was used successfully for 42 weeks on CBS in 1940. The originator was William Benton, advertising man emeritus (Benton & Bowies), now a University of Chicago vice president. Sherman Dryer, head of the University's radio department, produces it with the assistance of the faculty and Chicago radio actors. As a dramatization of the factual research going on in colleges and universities, Chicago's show has already scored heavily with students of many degrees of learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Three Little Words | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...household art of mechanical dehydration, engineers and food chemists have worked out a home food dryer that can be used in any kitchen. Like the first horseless carriage, the home dehydrator is crude and sometimes unreliable, but it can save a lot of time and labor. The Department of Agriculture thinks so well of its possibilities that WPB has allotted manufacturers enough material to make 100,000 home dehydrators this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home-Dried Food | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...sold to the Army & Navy. In the new process the rough rice is soaked in warm water, undergoes a vacuum treatment, then is put under pressure which transfers the soluble vitamins and minerals from the husks and bran coatings to the kernel. Next a vacuum dryer seals the vitamins in the kernel; then the rice is husked and polished in the usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Richer Rice | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Trouble was, nobody much wanted him to render his service. Since Tobe's noise suppressers go on everything but the radio, he had to try to sell vacuum-cleaner and hair-dryer and clock and fan and telephone manufacturers on adding it to their products. In the depression most of them had enough trouble as it was, without monkeying with a radio silencer no one had ever heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Tobe Gets Terrific | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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