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Word: instead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Robertson, add a dimension. Take a deep breath and consider spheres instead of circles. In freshman solid geometry (which deals with ordinary "flat" space), a two-inch sphere has eight times the volume of a one-inch sphere. But if space is curved (a la Einstein), the two-inch sphere (curling in upon itself in space) will have less than eight times the volume of the one-inch sphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...longer a race (his nearest foe was some 40 yds. in the rear), but a battle against the stop watch. Dodds passed the three-quarter mark in 3:03.9, just about what he'd planned. Then, instead of running down, 29-year-old Dodds began to go even faster. His time for the Wanamaker Mile-4:05.3-broke his own world's indoor mile record by more than a second. As usual, he took only part of the credit: "I always do my best trusting in the Lord. I feel as if He's with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Traveling Pastor | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...bartenders. Rome's Pliny the Elder listed the onion as a cure for 28 diseases. Early New England settlers believed that the onion would prevent fits; Neapolitans of the Middle Ages thought it averted the evil eye. A 16th Century French surgeon, Ambroise Parè, used it instead of ointment to heal powder burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Onion | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Free Enterprise Society, however, has chosen neither of these courses; instead its officers have attempted to cover up their own responsibility by a smoke-screen of invective. For such a position we can have little respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answers to Free Enterprise Society | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

...this operetta goes a lot further than any of its predecessors. "Utopia Ltd." has been unpopular since its first night in 1893 because it is just about as satiric as a light opera can be. Instead of attacking such innocent clay-pigeons as the nobility or Oscar Wilde or Tennyson, Gilbert allows his tricky verses to bite into the touchy and important phases of modern life. The hypocrisy behind commercialism in modern government and behind sexual morality is hit hard in this work about a utopian isle that tries to become anglicized. The king sends his daughters to be schooled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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