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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citizens who had expected a more dramatic transition-something like a motion-picture battle shot dissolving to a sylvan scene-had given up the idea. Life seemed just about as difficult and complicated as it was during the war. A good job was already hard to find. And where was the beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Shakedown I | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Master teed up against Byron Nelson, 34, the modern mechanical marvel. Most of the way, Jones matched Nelson shot for shot. Bobby's haymaker swing, accentuated wrist motion, and hula hip motion seemed incurably individualistic beside Byron's three-quarters swing, and minimum of motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Masters Only | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Every element and compound can be tagged in this way. Within a few years, tracers should be: 1) marking the progress of raw materials through industrial processes, 2) "banding" bacteria as if they were robins, 3) even following the motion of water deep underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Wonderful Pile | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Undoubtedly, the turbo-encabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for operating nofer trunnions. In addition, whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Nofer Trunnions | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Aristotelian dictum that the function of the artist is to present the essence, rather than the particularity, of life-- which Shakespeare so wonderfully exemplifies in his use of dramatic poetry as a vehicle of expression-- Olivier reaches a level of perception into life that has seldom been equalled in motion pictures or on the modern stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

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