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Recipe. In Memphis, a queasy husband seeking a divorce complained to the court that his wife cooked him up a one-dish breakfast composed of a layer of beans, one of sardines, one of salmon, topped with a cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...course of solving this puzzle, Dr. Trueta's research group happened on something with far more exciting possibilities. Physiologists have generally supposed that kidney blood circulation follows a fixed route, with most of the blood circulating through the tiny vessels in the kidneys' cortex (outer layer). The Trueta research showed that the kidneys have an emergency detour for the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exciting Discovery | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Workmen are now shoring up the 54-year-old building which was discovered to be badly sagging several weeks ago. Although most of the plaster dust which caused the student protest has been removed in an intensive cleanup campaign, a thin layer still covers the corridors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Checkup Shows Claverly Men Staying | 7/29/1947 | See Source »

Describing the dust filled air as "stifling," Herman Page '50 said that it was impossible to keep the rooms clean. Covering everything is a layer of fine plaster, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plaster Dust Drives Out 61 Tenants in Claverly | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

...reach into the soil and draw mineral-laden water to the surface. When the water evaporates through the leaves, the minerals it carried remain in the plant's tissues, eventually falling to the ground and becoming part of the humus on the surface. Geophysicists analyze this "biologically enriched" layer and the leaves of growing plants. Finnish geochemists found a rich copper-nickel deposit by examining the ashes of birch leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prospecting Above Ground | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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