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Word: ices (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft-accented young physician with a pretty blonde wife and a two-year-old daughter moved last week into a rambling white clapboard house in Fabius, N.Y. Before his office was finished, a blizzard swirling outside brought him his first emergency case: a townswoman who had fallen on ice. For both Dr. Joseph Brudny, 33, and the twin villages of Fabius and Pompey (combined pop.: about 3,000), the beginning of his practice was the fulfillment of a dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: D.P. at Home | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

With $13,355,000 in ECA funds, British oil companies and associates are building four refineries to boost their output by 33 million barrels of oil a year. They want another $30 million to add 46.5 million more barrels. That request, said Bransky, had been put on ice indefinitely. But "we are still hopeful," he added, "that a satisfactory outcome will be obtained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Big Stick | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

This is a new technique believed far superior to the old clumsy method of dropping dry ice on the clouds from an aeroplane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Meteorologist May End New York City's Water Shortage | 3/15/1950 | See Source »

...will finance the first six months of what may be a year-long experiment. Howell will spot the clouds he wants to bombard by radar. Then he will either shoot rockets or drop pellets into the clouds from airplanes, causing ice formation, which precipitates rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Meteorologist May End New York City's Water Shortage | 3/15/1950 | See Source »

...last week, is to rub them down with coarse sandpaper. Acne's disfigurement, Dr. McEvitt reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rough Stuff | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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