Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Helen Emily Springer, 81, who shared her Methodist bishop husband's missionary work for 44 years, traveled extensively throughout Southern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo, where she devised the first written medium for three native languages so that she could translate Christian literature into the vernacular; in Mulungwishi, Belgian Congo...
Potential Paradise. The basic materials for such expansion seem adequate in the U.S. for centuries to come. U.S. coal seams will last for "thousands of years." Known high-and medium-grade iron ore deposits in the U.S. will last 40 years, lower-grade ore some 600 years. Moulton also expects new deposits to be discovered. New techniques will further stretch existing supplies. Example: gas turbines are so cheap and efficient that one day a turbine the size of a dial telephone may power the American automobile...
...Rockefeller Institute's famed Neurophysiologist Gasser showed that pain is transmitted along low, medium-and high-speed fibers...
Meighan has railed for years against the "inefficiency of insincerity." Last fall he got a chance to prove his theories at CBS-owned WCCO in Minneapolis. Meighan picked WCCO for experiment because its listening audience represents a happy medium between "salesman-shy" New Yorkers and "gullible-as-hell" Californians...
...TIME Inc., this venture into the new medium of television has been a very rewarding experience. ABC has informed us that the telecast audience is large, enthusiastic, and growing (as is television itself-to the tune of some 150,000 new sets a month). Reaction from the critics has been favorable, and so has the mail we have received from televiewers-many of whom helped make the history of this filmed and televised account of the war in Europe as Eisenhower...