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Word: packed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airplane is seriously damaged or if something has happened to its oxygen supply, the pilot must bail out. When he cuts loose, the quick-thinking suit switches to a bottle of oxygen in the parachute pack and keeps the man alive on the long fall toward earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Semi-Space Suit | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...trial in Tel Aviv's district court, Rabbi Barti conducted his own defense. Barzilai's story was a pack of lies, he implied. "How could you believe," he asked Barzilai, "that for so paltry a sum as $5,000 you could buy King Solomon's throne, his raiment and the treasure dating back to the days of creation-especially as my magic hadn't even helped your wife?" Answered Barzilai: "I believed because you swore on the Bible, and I am a simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Man Who Would Be King | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...They teach arithmetic as if it involved nothing more than totting up grocery bills or figuring compound interest, completely fail to give their pupils any glimpse into the concepts that lie behind the subject. Last year Fehr took on the job of collaborating with TV Producer Richard Pack of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. on a TV show that might whet the mathematical appetites of children around junior high-school age. Result: a pleasant, nine-part series called Adventures in Number and Space, now being shown once a week over regular TV channels in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland. Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Appetizer | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Last week Fehr and Pack had every reason to believe that they had a hit. From everyone from M.I.T. Mathematician W. T. Martin ("an imaginative presentation") to U.S. Education Commissioner Lawrence G. Derthick ("one of the best current films on mathematics"), the compliments poured in. But Professor Fehr and Producer Pack had one word of warning. The series is in no way meant to be a "course" in mathematics, but "a kind of mathematical hors d'oeuvre, an appetizer, a stimulant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Appetizer | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Trailed by the customary pack of newshounds, Harry Truman scurried about Manhattan on an early-morning constitutional. His conversation also ranged far and wide, included a sermonette on the hazards of jaywalking. Scarcely was this out of his mouth when, crossing a street with the green light in his favor, Truman almost got mowed down by a car rushing a semaphore. The reporters yelled at the driver, but Harry was too involved in his street lecture to notice the close shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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