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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days at Dover, before going to France for the big try. She intended to daub herself with the traditional coat of protective grease, but she did not put it so prosaically to the reporters in London's Waterloo Station. Said Shirley May: "I have brought along four one-piece suits to wear in training, but I will swim the Channel nude. I probably won't even be wearing a suit when I enter the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Trudy | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...looked something like moving day at a metropolitan bank. Each of the two private cars that pulled up in front of Yale University's library had four big metal chests inside-and an armed guard. Nobody actually expected hijackers, but Yale, egged on by the insurance companies, was taking no chances. The chests held the private papers of James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson and pertinacious observer of the 18th Century in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boola Boswell | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

When a dog show opened in Chicago last March, the National Society for Medical Research-long a target for the Hearstpapers' antivivisectionist crusades-staged a counteroffensive. The society put on its own exhibit, where dog lovers could watch four dogs from the laboratories of Illinois universities. The doctors wanted to show that experiments had not made the dogs miserable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bark & Bite | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Chicago, and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) are becoming major centers of scientific life. Smaller AEC laboratories are sprouting up all over the country. At present the program employs about 6,500 scientists and technicians. On the vital problem of personnel, the report, signed by Chairman David E. Lilienthal and his four fellow commissioners, commented significantly: "The morale situation has recovered from a very low point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: AEC Unlimited | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...With its four jet engines screaming like tortured banshees, Britain's De Havilland Cornet, the world's only jet airliner, took off on its first test flight last week and flew for 31 minutes over Hertfordshire. Test Pilot Captain John Cunningham made a cream-smooth landing and reported the flight "entirely successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Screaming Challenge | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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