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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The story came to the Science Editor's attention via advance tear sheets of a new monthly technical magazine called Audio Engineering. Carefully checked with its author, Inventor S. (for Sidney) Young White, the story described the gadget, told what it could do, and suggested some aspects of its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

In all of Sicily there is no bloodier bandit than Salvatore Giuliano. A swart, 25-year-old ex-black marketeer, who began his career with the killing of a customs officer, Salvatore has totted up a spine-chilling record of robbery, blackmail, murder and kidnaping. Yet to many a Sicilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Price of Heads | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Dr. Burnet thinks that man has less to fear from viruses than from bacteria. An outstanding fact about viruses, says he, is that their well-being depends on the health of their host. Unlike bacteria and insects, which are often out-&-out rivals of man, viruses can live only as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wanted: A Host | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

British scientists found last year that IPC killed certain grain plants. U.S. scientists took the hint and tried the stuff on quackgrass, alias witchgrass, one of the peskiest weeds in the northern U.S. As little as 10 lbs. an acre, Agriculture reports, does the deed, killing even the nine-lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grass Killer | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

The Web (Universal -lnternational) is a tight, bright melodrama about a poor but fairly honest lawyer (Edmond O'Brien) who hires on to protect a suave capitalist (Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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