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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frivolous Jumps. In the neatly appropriate year of 1900, a discovery was made that was to knock the props from under classical physics. In his Berlin laboratory, Max Planck, a 42-year-old German physicist, was trying to describe mathematically the emission of light by glowing bodies. No one had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Half-Century: STEEP CURVE TO LEVEL FOUR | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

De Havilland's figures knocked the props from under London newspaper predictions of nonstop London-New York schedules of six hours. Until its range was improved, the Comet would not be able to make nonstop London-New York flights at all. De Havilland itself estimated that it would take twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Comet's Tale | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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