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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cases where the blood clots quickly, an anti-clotting agent to slow the process might be the answer. But Ochsner warned that such agents are "too dangerous." His suggestion: alpha tocopherol phosphate, "a normal antithrombin found within the blood [which] appears to represent a satisfactory substance to correct an antithrombin deficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Handle with Care | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...operations they have performed with nylon wrap-ups (called arthroplasty), every patient was able to walk again within three weeks. Only one failed to regain painless knee movement (because of a faulty blood supply, rather than any fault in the operation). Of the 19 others, ten have fully regained "normal range of motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nylon on the Knee | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Aurex Corp. of Chicago last week announced a new gadget for increasing the hearing range of people with normal hearing. It might also do for eavesdroppers what binoculars have done for Peeping Toms. The "Opeara Glass" was invented by Aurex' Walter H. Huth. The little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Eavesdroppers | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...vanities of man. But his theory, which requires no rare catastrophe for the formation of planets, makes it much less likely that man is alone in the universe. The sun is an ordinary star, of very common size, temperature and chemical composition. If it has acquired planets in the normal course of its development, many millions of similar stars may have planets too. If so, there is a chance that high forms of life, perhaps higher than man, have developed on some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Beginning | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...still hasn't had a fair test. Construction still is under progress, commuters, remain unfamiliar with the system, and pedestrians are all too often downright hostile and uncooperative. But barring a gang war between can companies, the Harvard Square battleground should soon develop into merely another busy, but otherwise normal, intersection. Although not as tasty as Tono Bungay, rotary traffic should effect more material results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

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