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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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If public ownership should always turn out Louisville-style, the sooner the U. S. public could forget about it the better off it would be. But this week, while doubtful Louisville citizens could look south into the TVA area and wonder how the greatest public ownership project in U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Colorado Consolation | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Finding the direction, or bearing, of a U-boat was not enough to locate it. But if each of three patrol vessels, say a mile apart, picked up submarine sounds, determined the bearing, then communicated their bearing readings to the other two by wireless telephone, three direction lines could be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ears Under Water | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

The "binaural principle" of acoustical direction-finding is basically the same as that which enables a human being (with good hearing in both ears) to tell approximately whence a sound comes. The compression peaks of a sound wave coming in at an angle reach the near ear a tiny fraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ears Under Water | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Upon another morrow, if we strive, Our links of life, now broken, may unite, Not each for each but both for all alive Opening the other shutters for more light.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

When her publishers suggested that she write a children's book, Gertrude Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rose Is a Gertrude | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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