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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In natural wool, the long molecules are connected by "disulphide cross-linkages." These the chemists replaced by "bis-thioether cross-linkages." The artificial links are as strong mechanically as the natural ones, so the wool is as strong. The links are also stronger chemically, and the moths' digestive juices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Indigestible Wool | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

"Scott of the Antarctic" is a rare example of the triumph of honest melodrama--a film which faithfully records the melodrama of actual events. There is no toying with spectacular effects, no falsely dramatic sequences. As a result, the natural spectacle of the Antarctic and the genuine drama of Scott...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

"The disease tends to breed in families where serious, long-standing social problems exist," Dr. Robert Jackson of the University of Iowa reported this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Students of rheumatic fever cannot fail to learn how important wholesome family life is to the welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Homework | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

The big job was to find just how to vary the current. To make the fish wiggle properly, he discovered, the intensity of the current must rise suddenly and die away slowly. Such "pulses" must be about two-thousandths of a second long. The pause between pulses must be timed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Pied Piper of Hamburg | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

The LaFlamme haircut is, according to the entrepreneurs, both natural and professional. It is low in back and done almost entirely with scissors because the management believes most barbers use the electric clipper to excess.

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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