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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject may be disturbed because of unimaginable horrors perpetrated on his theta being in outer space billions of years ago. ("Things are as rough in outer space as they are here," says a devout Hubbardian. "Anything can happen.") If a subject has a pain in his jaw, it may be that in an earlier spiral he was a clam. If this pain is associated with fear of falling, he must have been a clam that was picked up by a bird and dropped on the rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Remember Venus? | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...been a guinea pig in a current drive to reform Princeton's small, select graduate school. James A. Kritzeck, fellow in Oriental History and resident member of Dunster House, in the past two weeks has become an unnamed hero to 130 Princeton graduate students and a profanely-named pain in the neck to a host of Princeton deans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jr. Fellow Here Leads Princeton Reform Fight | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

...stage the rocket would be under automatic control; the men, weighing nine times normal, would not be capable of any action at all. With the power cut off and the rocket coasting upward, gravity would drop to zero. The men would be expected to rise from their beds of pain (not knowing which end is up) and perform navigation feats that would tax a professor of celestial mechanics. Dr. Strughold does not think they could work at peak form; they would be lucky to accomplish anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey into Space | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Elizabeth Kenny, then 23, did the best she could. Strips of blanket, dipped in boiling water and wrung out, eased the child's pain so that she soon fell asleep. When she woke she cried: "I want them rags that wells my legs." Sister Kenny applied more of "them rags." Soon she applied them to five more stricken children in the neighborhood. A year later she could report to her physician friend, Dr. Aeneas McDonnell, that the children had recovered without paralysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Stubborn Sister | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...Amerada brought in a new discovery well in Alberta's Peace River area which Jacobsen says may have great possibilities. Cautiously, he says it is too early to estimate the size of the new find, and adds that the Peace River area "may prove to be a pain in the neck or something really big." And only two weeks ago, in Texas' Yoakum County, Amerada's drillers brought in still another new field. It was not a very big one, but it is the sort of new field that Jacobsen calls Amerada's "bread & butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Great Hunter | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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