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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Show-off lads who hurtle their old Mercs around too screechingly (turning on the afterburners) are High-school Harrys. Well-dressed and popular men are cool dads and hard cats. But the answer to every coed's prayer is a king or snow job. Many a coed, dating up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gator Gab | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Tower of Hope. World War II's crash programs on many scientific fronts brought Dr. Rhoads to another conclusion unpopular in medical circles: a frontal attack on cancer, with experts in a dozen sciences working toward the same goal, should pay off faster than the traditional uncoordinated approach of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mr. Cancer Research | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

¶Also at Canaveral, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tried to fling into orbit a10-lb. plastic and aluminum inflatable sphere that would circle the earth like an oversized beach ball (diameter: 12 ft.), measuring friction in the outer reaches of the atmosphere. The three-stage Juno II rocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Missile Week | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

¶Without the characteristic roar of blastoff, a Navy Polaris popped out of a large tube, impelled by compressed air in a device the Navy has installed at Canaveral to simulate the pitch and roll of a ship. Dubbed "the world's largest cocktail shaker," the $3,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Missile Week | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

The main criterion for selecting a dumping spot is depth, with 1,000 fathoms (6,000 ft.) as a minimum. MSTS will drop its cargoes at points about 200 miles due east of Cape Cod, 105 miles south-southeast of Cape Henry, Va., 120 miles southeast of Sandy Hook, N.J...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Garbage Disposal | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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