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Word: foams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with cars that none could ever move again. Only then would man be free of the monster. But would he accept his freedom? It seemed doubtful. It would be too easy to lay boards across the tops of a billion sedans and start all over again with jet propulsion, foam rubber wheels and special lighters for the motorist's neon-trimmed opium pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Last Traffic Jam | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...statue of the Virgin, one foot holding down the head of a sea serpent, above the inscription: "Tu es Virgo Maria, portus sahitis, marls stella" (Thou art the Virgin Mary, haven of safety, star of the sea). Catholic fishermen sailed their craft daringly, crashing the gunwales under the foam to prove to the leftist onlookers that with the Madonna in the leading boat nothing could happen to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...This bock stuff is pretty good," interjected his friend, wiping the foam from his lips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

...Other promising materials with similar properties: fibrin foam, soluble cellulose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gelatin for Bleeding | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Near Fairbanks, the Army has laid down 20 runway sections insulated from the permafrost by layers of cellular concrete, asphalt, foam glass, gravel, moss and spruce boughs. Under each runway are thermometers to measure heat penetration. For buildings, the trick is to rest the walls on thick mats of insulating material, or allow cold air to circulate freely under heated floors. Roads will be insulated, too, to keep foundations frozen under thundering tanks and trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pesky Permafrost | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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