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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wine," said he, "contains and carries to the human organism ... a complex of mineral materials (calcium salts, potassium, iron, sodium and many more), of organic materials (alcohols, sugar, glycerine, organic acids, tannin, ether, alde-hydes), of vitamins, and diverse mineral substances. Because of these different things wine, for a healthy man who makes habitual use of it, excites the appetite, stimulates the motor and secretive functions . . . and helps the whole digestion ... It favors general nutrition and the stability of a man's humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Quart a Day | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Other calculator experts (a minority) are not so sure. They admit that even the Mark III is crude compared to a human brain with its billions of cross-connected nerve cells. Yet the Mark III can already beat the human brain at certain tedious tasks. Imaginative scientists can only' guess at what other mental marvels its more efficient descendants will be able to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Citizens of Vancouver | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Other calculator experts (a minority) are not so sure. They admit that even the Mark III is crude compared to a human brain with its billions of cross-connected nerve cells. Yet the Mark III can already beat the human brain at certain tedious tasks. Imaginative scientists can only' guess at what other mental marvels its more efficient descendants will be able to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 600 Men & a Machine | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Vice. Totem poles, characteristic of British Columbia, are also made in the East Indies. A common pattern in both regions has human figures alternating on the pole with figures of fish or birds. Dr. Ekholm showed the Americanists carved sticks (miniature totem poles) from both Sumatra and British Columbia and challenged them to tell him which came from where. They confessed that the designs were so similar that they could only guess whether Asiatic or American Indians made them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hints from Asia | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...lives in England) seems to be trying to explain why so many G.I.s enthused over, and sometimes married European women. Jerry's Long Island fiancee "combined such perfection of physical beauty, flawlessness of character, uprightness, and unapproachable purity that it was difficult for him to regard her as human." What Jerry liked about WAAF Patches, on the other hand, was not only her attitude about sex but "her silences and her presence, because they were soothing. The thing was, with a little mouse like that who wasn't either pretty or popular, you didn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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