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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operator, Andrew Young, shipped VR6AY's ailing equipment off for repairs, he wrote to several U. S. radio ham acquaintances. A landslide, he said, had damaged the islanders' boats in Bounty Bay; rats (mostly Bounty descendants, too) were eating up the island's few crops, had even got into the orange trees; everybody was well but supplies were running low; the only hope of hearing from the outside world was through a tiny crystal set with only a 60-mile range, too short to reach the nearest shipping lane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pitcairn's Plight | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Office, but with considerable pride in its heart in not having yet knuckled under to the U.S.S.R. After four days without so much as seeing either Joseph Stalin or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, but having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland's best port, Hangö. "What would the English think," asked Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, "if the Isle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Finnish Finish | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...decade ago Lawrence invented the cyclotron, most efficient and powerful of atom-smashing devices, which spirals atomic bullets up to tremendous speeds by repeated electrical pushes. With his 85-ton cyclotron Lawrence and his numerous co-workers have created scores of artificially radioactive substances, including common salt, and have even created a few atoms of gold. He now has a 225-ton cyclotron and is planning an even bigger machine, that will weigh 2,000 tons (TIME, Nov. 6). Dozens of cyclotrons are now in use all over the world, and many are in charge of physicists who got their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cookies from Stockholm | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...young assistant: "It is carelessly gambling with a recovery hard-won to send a patient home without making real effort to stabilize the environment to which he must return or to exercise as many safeguarding precautions in planning his immediate course of action as are reasonably possible." Some doctors even press social responsibilities upon their patients in between injections, encourage them to work and play with other patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Death for Sanity | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Prensa never to comment on personalities: its editors hold that nothing matters except principles. These are the special concern of Sunday Editor Gollan. La Prensa's editorials, skipped by most readers, supposedly wield great power with the Government. When a significant editorial has to be written, even on a weekday, Don Ezequiel or his nephew usually calls in Sr. Gollan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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