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Word: plastically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Besides plastic combs and nylon stockings America also sends us many thick, colorful weeklies. The one . . . best known here is the magazine TIME. Since the Dutch press is still fighting the paper shortage and therefore cannot keep us well enough informed, many look for additional news in the columns of this attractive magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...checks up on the behavior of blood vessels, which register emotional upsets by expanding and contracting abnormally. Tulane's Drs. George E. Burch and Clarence T. Ray, searching for a simple means of registering psychosomatic disturbances "objectively," used a "plethysmograph." The subject sticks his finger tip into a plastic cup, and the machine records the finger's alternate swelling and contraction by measuring the tiny changes in the cup's air volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sensitive Finger Tips | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Woodward has already squirted thin liquid streams of the molecules into warm air, in long siken threads. And a transparent plastic film eight ten thousandths of an inch thick has been made from the new material, by pouring solutions of the analog on a frozen surface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protein Made Synthetically By Woodward | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

...studied sculpture in Paris, gave him a few pointers, and Neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson too was moved to smile on Daniel's work. That was enough. Writes Margaret: "With that fine conviction in their own capacity to produce the best . . . Concord commissioned its youthful representative of the plastic art to model a statue of a Minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Popular Blend | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...code ring, a compass ring for Shredded Wheat, a radar ring for Peter Pan Peanut Butter) for the major users of box-top premiums. Latest to come off the top-secret list: a "weather ring" for B. F. Goodrich. (A tiny sheet of litmus paper beneath a plastic lens turns pink in rainy weather, blue in fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Frenzied Flashes | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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