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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three of its 24 columns to a claim that the principle of conservation of matter,* attributed by Westerners to Lavoisier (1775), was really discovered by an 18th Century Russian poet-scientist-philosopher named Mikhail Lomonosov. This week the Russians claimed again that a Russian flew the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine 21 years before the Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin, and many basic discoveries in theoretical sciences were Russian products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cut to Pattern | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Cotton. Southern Methodist, with help from Doak Walker and Kyle Rote, chopped heavier Oregon down to size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Busy Bowls | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Four nights later, a brawler from Pennsylvania's coal mines got his big chance in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Joe Baksi had shed a lot of blubber (from 257 Ibs. down to 210½), but he was still 32½ pounds heavier than his Negro opponent, Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati. For most of the ten rounds, Ezzard buzzed around Baksi like a bumblebee around a bull. He kept stinging Baksi with lefts & rights that didn't seem to hurt much-though he opened a bad cut above his left eye. At 2:33 of the eleventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Foe for Joe | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Matilda gave her home as Hammaching, Mich. Asked about the laundry problem over such a distance, she confessed "I do my personal laundry myself, and send home just the heavier things, like bluejeans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothes Make the 'Woman' | 11/9/1948 | See Source »

...tuba that is "Wintergreen," look for a moment at the man with the Dewey button and the tear in his eye and the man with the Truman button and the tear in his eye. These men understand. They know whose absence it is that makes the heart grow heavier this autumn. And not all the brass in Bubduk can blow loud enough to make up the loss of John P. Wintergreen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Flavor Lasts | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

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