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Word: geniuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ignorance, frivolity and rivalry the world played with the awful atom. Last week the U.S. Congress became the focus of the world's hopes and fears. The U.S. had the bomb; had it the genius to lay down an initial policy which would grow into man's domination of atomic power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: Better than Dynamite? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...sunken-cheeked, 62-year-old Auvergnat wore his usual white tie, looked more than ever like a peasant dressed in untidy Sunday clothes. But he was a peasant of genius. He took the measure of the High Court of Justice in Paris with a shrewd and baleful eye. As his treasonable acts were recited, the arch-collaborator of Vichyfrance calculatingly sized up the opposition: white-haired André Mornet, prosecutor of Mata Hari and Pétain; red-robed Judge Pierre Mongibeaux, who had sentenced the Marshal two months ago; the jury of resistance leaders and parliamentarians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Devil's Advocate | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

School of the Air chops up the week with five subjects. Mondays feature U.S. history (The Genius of Franklin, Riding the Range, The Big Canal); Tuesday shows are music (sample for Halloween: Danse Macabre, Grieg's March of the Dwarfs); Wednesdays are science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: After-Hours School | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

Twelve days after Tokyo's worst recorded earthquake (Sept. 1, 1923), famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright received a cablegram from the Japanese baron who ran the Imperial Hotel: "Hotel stands undamaged as monument to your genius. Hundreds of homeless provided [for] by perfectly maintained service. Congratulations. Signed, Okura Impeho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Made in Japan, U.S.-Designed | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Untrained pilots, shown pictures of planes for 1/75th of a second, named only one out of three. After training, the score of most increased to 80%. Professor Renshaw is now using his method in the peacetime job of speeding up sluggish readers. One student ("just a nice girl, no genius"), after 33 sessions with the flashing screen, speeded her reading of "heavy literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fast Looks | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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