Word: layers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person can remain long near a body that is even slightly radioactive unless he is "protected by lead-lined clothing." Its projected program for the burial of highly radioactive bodies: "Dispose of them summarily by sealing them in caskets . . . lowering the caskets into excavations floored by a copious layer of concrete and then completely surrounding them with more concrete poured to fill the excavations. The graves, of course, would be located in a secluded spot from which the public would forever be barred...
...normal, mature tooth has a hard outer enamel, an inner layer of dentine, and at the core a soft pulp containing the nerves and blood vessels (see diagram). Because blood vessels do not reach the enamel, they bring it no nourishment, take none away, says...
...Luxury Lovers. Last week's action did peel off (as of July 1) the top layer of taxes on luxury goods, amusements, communications and railway berths -taxes which have cost U.S. citizens an annual $1.2 billion since they were slapped on by the 1943 wartime Revenue Act. Chiefly this was a New Year's present to luxury-loving Americans...
...more than two or three good tennis players at one time . . . but golf is different. You must whip an awful lot of fellows to get on top." Some of the "awful lot" were among the 130 who teed off at Los Angeles' Riviera course. There was a top layer, of such men as icy cool Ben Hogan (TIME, Nov. 18), which would take some cracking. Last week Hogan shot four under par, won first place...
Curran and Bridges were cochairmen. United, they won substantial wage gains. Big Joe was happy-but he was also uneasy. The reason for his uneasiness was that the top layer of C.M.U.'s officialdom was dominated by Communist party-liners, and in the midst of trade-union victory they were playing their own game, as slow-thinking Joe Curran slowly found...