Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the University of Illinois' College of Medicine in Chicago this week, a gaunt, sallow-faced man, a sufferer from cancer of the throat, stepped into a basement room furnished only with an improvised table, a mirror and an awesome machine. Technicians arranged the cancer victim on the table...
The unseen but terrifyingly powerful bombardment lasted for three minutes and 20 seconds while Laughlin nursed his controls. When the machine's electrical brain reported that the prescribed dosage of 100 roentgens had been delivered to the patient, it shut itself off. "O.K.," said Laughlin, "that's it...
Take a Small Box. What the bee hunter needs first of all, says Edgell, is a small, double-chambered, glass-windowed box with a hinged lid ("One's first task is to catch a bee"). In the box he places an empty honeycomb which he fills with sugar syrup...
In the record war between RCA Victor and Columbia Records, Inc., both sides have hotly wooed Decca Records, Inc. as a prospective ally. But Decca, third largest U.S. recordmaker, has played hard to get, shrewdly watching & waiting to see whether RCA's 45 r.p.m. or Columbia's 33...
There was no doubt that RCA was taking a licking. In Detroit, Grinnell Bros. Music House (with 30 branches) estimated that Columbia's LP records were outselling RCA's 30 to 1. Chicago's leading record dealer, Hudson-Ross, said that the RCA 45 "just hasn'...