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Word: fuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kollsman's 200 patents. But no outsider really knew what it was worth until last week, when Paul Kollsman sold out to Square D Co. (maker of electric switches and control equipment, particularly an automatic circuit breaker cheap enough to be used in houses in place of fuse boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Kollsman's Number | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...exposed heart was a case of rare ectopia cordis, of which 28 cases have been recorded since 1706. The deformity may be caused by failure of embryonic chest cells to fuse in the middle. Since Maria's heart was unprotected by a membrane, Dr. Guillermo del Castillo carefully covered it with a thin stemless cocktail glass, and placed the baby, who was otherwise normal, in an incubator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Open Heart | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present. The perpetrator was not discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Box No. 198 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...bomb consisted of a soda bottle filled with gun-powder, buckshot, and newspaper. There was a fuse attached to the explosives, but the fuse was a piece of string which burned out before the fire reached the bottle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Bomb Found on Stair Of Mass. Ave. Establishment | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...Sachs is working on colchicene, a substance which will prevent the cell walls from forming during the reproductive process. This means that the nuclei will be twice as large since the nuclei of two adjoining cells will fuse together and the doubled number of chromosomes doubles the size of the plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIMANN, SACHS STUDY AUXIN AND COLCHICENE | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

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