Word: fuller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleep is just a bad habit. So said Socrates and Samuel Johnson, and so for years has thought grey-haired Richard Buckminster Fuller, futurific inventor of the Dymaxion* house (TIME, Aug. 22, 1932), the Dymaxion car and the Dymaxion globe. Fuller made a deliberate attempt to break the sleep habit, with excellent results. Last week he announced his Dymaxion system of sleeping. Two hours of sleep a day, he said firmly, is plenty...
...press conference in Manhattan two weeks ago Brendan Bracken cheerfully answered a dozen questions about Rudolf Hess. The British Minister of Information's volubility was a sign that the official silence about Hess had ended. Last week London's Daily Mail printed a fuller account of the condition and activities of Britain's No. 1 War Prisoner. The Daily Mail's story, amplified by information given to a TIME correspondent...
Lynch won his first match by default, then beat John Allen 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; G. C. Fuller 6-0, 6-0; Jack Fried 6-2, 6-0; and Thomas Mann 6-1, 6-0. He received a Red Cross certificate for his victories...
Hunker labeled himself as a man to watch when he defeated Jack Benn, resident of Cambridge and former number one man on the Brown varsity. The scores were 3-6, 7-5, and 6-1. Shore trimmed Ed Twarog, AST, 6-3, 6-4; Lynch overwhelmed G. C. Fuller, 6-0, 6-0; and Mann took over Robert E. Stokes 6-2, 6-2 to round out the septet...
...days later, Bureau Chief Krock rushed into print with a fuller explanation. His dispatch, written in the Virginia horse country, began: "Since this correspondent left Washington for a considerable absence. . . ." His own skirts cleared, Columnist Krock resumed the official Times line...