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Word: maying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still in the experimental stage are offensive guided missiles which may one day replace bombers. General McNarney says that the U.S. can now build a missile that can fly 5,000 miles and hit within 15 or 20 miles of a given target. "That's not close enough," he admits, "and it's too expensive." Another high authority believes that even this very moderate accuracy is "only a pipe dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tactics Up in the Air | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...they were blown out of the depression. The undisturbed rock layers of the region are horizontal, or nearly so, while the strata near the crater dip downward from the rim. The geologists found no meteoric iron, but they did find chunks of peculiar rock containing 3% of nickel that may have been part of a "stony" meteor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Depression in Australia | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...week beginning Thursday, May 12. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...sour and old-fashioned 60, De Chirico loathes surrealism, deplores his own sparkling past. In London last week for an exhibition of his conservative new paintings, he gave a lecture backing up everything that Royal Academician Sir Alfred Munnings had said about modern art the week before (TIME, May 9). Echoed De Chirico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old-Fashioned | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

After the last kudos and kisses for Serge Koussevitzky last week (TIME, May 9), workmen swarmed into Boston's Symphony Hall. Some" splashed the downstairs walls with gay green paint, others took out seats and risers, packed in small tables and gilt & green chairs. Symphony season was over, but the 64th Boston Pops season was just beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Broad Ah | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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