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Do the findings of the anonymous researcher have any scientific value? "It seems," he concludes in proper scientific jargon, "that beard growth in a man is a much-neglected parameter of hormone activity that can readily be quantified."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sex and 5 O'clock Shadow | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

Parameter. In Santa Rosa, Calif., City Manager Sam B. Hood relaxed a city charter provision forbidding city employees to give Christmas presents to their superiors, instructed department heads that they could accept a gift "if you can eat it, drink it or smoke it in one day."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

One man who did as much as anyone to raise meteorology to its present high estate is a likable, high-spirited, round-faced Swede named Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby. Most leaders of modern meteorology are friends or past pupils of Dr. Rossby's. The "Rossby parameter" is important in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man's Milieu | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Birds of War. So far, official announcements about the missile program have been brief and vague. Glenn L. Martin Co. revealed recently, for instance, that it will build a $5,000,000 plant, undoubtedly for missiles, near Denver. Shortly after such bits of news are made public, a bolt of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Missiles Away | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

His finding: Britain's warplane production is now passing 1,800 a month (see chart), will pass 1,900 at year's end. His guess on Germany's output: about 2,250 a month now, about 2,300 by year's end. From the best-informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: 50,000 Planes a Year | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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