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Word: furthers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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But as ... for dreaming . . .' remember that almost all modern inventions, including radio, television, the atomic bomb, airplanes, autos, etc. were once dreams . . . Science fiction is where many scientists and engineers dream ... If an engineer, for example, has an idea which does not, at the moment, seem practical, he can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Franklin Jr. had a well-prepared little statement for newsmen: "My only political intention is to represent my constituents of the 20th District of New York . . . I'm not a crystal-ball gazer, and therefore don't go any further than the immediate foreseeable future." Later, he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Face Is Familiar | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

When the cancer has had time to "take," the mouse is injected with a just-under-killing dose of the chemical to be tested. After a week or so, a girl kills the mouse by crushing its fragile skull. Then she slits open its belly skin and measures the cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frontal Attack | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Every day our mail brings at least one new invitation (inside two envelopes) and we inevitably find it a dismal experience to open it and discover who went this time. Not only does it mean something else that must be answered, not only does it involve further financial sacrifice, not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toll for the Brave | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

Surely the only thing that can possibly transform the Communist into a lunatic fringe into a dangerous minority is further suppression, which lends a certain dignity to a cause otherwise totally lacking it. As Locke wrote, "There is one thing only which gathers people into seditious commotions and that is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The NEA Report | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

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