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Suddenly it came. "Da sheontee kono meki no sienti holay coriente no sheonte mees . . ." said one of the women in a cool, musical voice. She continued for about a minute to utter these sounds, meaningless in any known language. No one glanced up or spoke. After a minute or two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Speaking in Tongues | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Died. Mistinguett, nee Jeanne Bourgeois, 82, French musicomedienne; in Bougival, a suburb of Paris. With her foghorn voice, perky Parisian personality and famed legs ("les plus belles jambes de France," allegedly insured for $3 million), "Mees" rose from flower girl to become the most luminous star of the French music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Among the participants in the discussions will be these non-Harvard teachers: Dr. Rene J. DuBois of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: Dean Sidney J. French of Colgate; Professor Frederick J. Kilgour '35 of Yale; Professor Paul H. Sears of Oberlin; and C. E. K. Mees of the Eastman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Session Grants Available | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

Role of the Meson. Last week 500 ultra-physicists gathered in Manhattan at a meeting of the American Physical Society to discuss this unfinished business. The meson (pronounced mees-on) was the star of the convention. Most physicists agreed that this subatomic particle, which weighs 200 times as much as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ultra-Nucleonics | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

When a newsman asked him for the significance of the discovery, Dr. Mees cracked back: "What is the significance of a newborn baby?" This riposte was not original with him.* Plausible assumption: that better knowledge of the grainy structure of films will sooner or later lead to better pictures, clearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Silver Seaweed | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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