Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even more shocking manifestations of capitalist decadence lingered in Traveler Gerasimov's memory. "The naked woman's body, like a national trademark," wrote Gerasimov, "has become the symbol of American commerce. Naked, seminaked, undressing and dressing women fill not only the films but the pages of magazines advertising...
From payments already received Rutgers will build a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology (study of living organisms too small for the naked eye to see) on the campus at New Brunswick. Also on hand or in sight is $250,000 from the Waksman gift to be used for the...
Menzel, whose thermometers must reach 93,000,000 miles, seems to have the tougher job. The temperature of the sun is 6000 Centigrade, but the temperature of the corona, which the naked eye can see only during total eclipses, appears to be 1,000,000. That's what Menzel is...
Professors Bart J. Bok and Harlow Shapley are trying to map this huge disc-shaped "island universe," which includes the earth and every star that the naked eye can see. Both of them are measuring the distance to far-away suns, to determine their relative positions in the galaxy and...
Norman Mailer, whose The Naked and the Dead is still a bestselling U.S. novel, was too outspoken for the British. "Incredibly foul and beastly . . . No decent man could leave it lying about the house, or know without shame that his womenfolk were reading it," fumed the Sunday Times in a...