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Word: hooke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special kind of flying saucer, says Menzel, has been seen four times, just after the launching of a big "sky hook" balloon. They appear as roundish objects, apparently at a great height. He believes that they are caused by the balloon itself when it rises through a thin layer of warm air at a thousand feet or so (see diagram). As it rises, it punches a hole in the layer. Cold air flows in, forming a blob of denser air that acts as an imperfect lens. Observers on the ground see a small moving image of the balloon above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Astronomer's Explanation: THOSE FLYING SAUCERS | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...cracking unit could save $320,000 a year in fuel by installing 12,000 of his units. Joseph N. Pew's Sun Oil Co., one of Houdry's original partners in his cat-cracking, is now installing the new Houdry process at a cracking unit in Marcus Hook, Pa. Houdry himself thinks one of his biggest potential markets is in the 5,700,000 home oil burners in the U.S. By the use of six of his units (eventual cost: $30) he estimates the burners could be made 100% efficient, save up to 40% of their annual fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: End of Smog? | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...Sidney Hook, New York Times: "No one can doubt the sincerity of his hard-won faith, that he has found in it, after much agony, a healing peace and humility. As a quest for personal salvation, it will command the respect of those who cannot share his cosmic hope and whose natural piety takes other forms . . . The view that man must worship either God or Stalin faces many formidable theoretical difficulties and has the most mischievous practical consequences . . . Deeply religious men speak with the same divided counsels as nonreligious men about the specific problems of war, peace, poverty and foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Witness Stand | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak. I held on maybe five seconds, and he straightened the hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...Kessler and other orthopedists, the rehabilitation of a man with a missing leg is fairly simple. A missing arm or hand is far more of a challenge. Kessler told the assembled surgeons about progress in electrical substitutes. Here the crucial job is to find an effective hook-up between muscle (or tendons) and the switches which control the supply of current from batteries to tiny electric motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Electric Arms & Hands | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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