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Dr. Fairbanks' gadget, which consists chiefly of a microphone, a tape-recorder and a playback amplifier, delays the reports on their way to the brain. Normally a speaker hears each syllable about a thousandth of a second after he has spoken it. By adjusting his apparatus to introduce delay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Feed-Back to Idiocy | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Haiker had asked each youngster to write down the names of the two classmates he liked most and the two he liked least. After a fortnight's interval, he asked them to name the two classmates they considered handsomest, the two they considered ugliest. With few exceptions, Haiker found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: I Hate You | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Auditions for the interval suit will be held the first week after vacation.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drumbeats Sets Plan | 12/16/1950 | See Source »

For most of the 52 aboard American Airlines' DC-6 "Arizona," the big speedy plane was less a means of travel than of transition; a kind of big cabinet through which they could pass-with a pleasantly uneventful interval of waiting in the seats inside-from one aspect of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Brave New World | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Last week, to celebrate its tenth birthday, Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre put its name back up on the Manhattan marquee where it first appeared. When the curtain went up in Rockefeller Center's huge (3,000 seats) Center Theatre, fans saw Les Sylphides, which opened Ballet Theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Yankee Twang | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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