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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine's electronic innards translate the magnetic dots on the tape into groups of characters, 80 for each line. As the disk revolves, 80 electrically operated hammers tap the back of the paper against an inked ribbon in contact with the disk, thus printing the proper characters in the proper places on the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Gadgets, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...sewing machines, photographic equipment, steel tubing and surgical instruments. Like most U.S. advertising salesmen, Hirata is often called on by his clients for a wide assortment of advice. They ask about everything from export methods and the use of English terms to the problem of how to reach the proper market for their products. In providing the answers, Hirata finds that his broad background in both the U.S. and Japan stands him in good stead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 3, 1952 | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Baffled too are many of the aerodynamic experts who work for the great aircraft manufacturers of Southern California. Some of them, led by Ed Sullivan; a technical writer for North American Aviation, Inc., builders of the Sabrejet, have formed an organization called the Civilian Saucer Investigation to give proper scientific analysis to the swarming rumors. The organization maintains a post-office box (Box 1971, Main Post Office, Los Angeles 53), and invites all "sighters" to report accurately everything odd they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Saucers | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...students should not be, and has not been a regular practice of Harvard University. This incident should have been settled through the Freshman Dean's Office. The type of publicity it received proved more harmful to the Negro at Harvard than if the matter had been channeled through the proper authorities. The ballooning of the evidence and the distorted association that has been made with the University could very easily prove detrimental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BEACON'S" BALLOON | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

...belief. While he was watching a prairie-dog town, an eagle sailed over. Prairie dogs and an owl dashed for the nearest shelter, and the owl struggled with the prairie dogs to get down a hole first. When the danger had passed, they all reappeared and went to their proper homes. This emergency procedure, Walker thinks, explains the stories of dog-owl happy households. It was harder to explain the rattlesnake part of the legend. He could report no rattlesnake sharing a hole with either a prairie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rattlesnakes & Owls | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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