Word: proto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proto-planets" (as Kuiper calls the eddies) condensed into planets, each with a disc of loose material around it. Then the planets' discs turned into satellites. One planet, Saturn, retains part of its disc as the famous rings...
...Proto" for "Plomb." Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co., which closed its plant after a U.S. district court ruled that it was illegally trading on the reputation of Philadelphia's Fayette R. Plumb, Inc. (TIME, Dec. 6), reopened-with a new trademark. Instead of "Plomb," it was now "Proto." Plomb President Morris Pendleton, who is appealing the decision, said the new trademark was just a temporary expedient (estimated cost: $130,000) to resume business. "We have been handed a lemon," said he, "so we are making lemonade...
...scallopers took their catch to New York, where Dr. Edwin H. Colbert of the American Museum of Natural History identified the tooth as the upper left third molar of a mastodon (a proto-elephant of the Pleistocene Age that tramped North America some 30,000 to 250,000 years...
...Mother of Us All turned out to be Proto-Feminist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906). But Gertrude did not hesitate to drag in characters of other eras-notably a pair of folks archly named Gertrude S. and Virgil T. (Gertrude did not look like Miss Stein, nor Virgil like Mr. Thomson). Another, born of her delight with G.I.s, was called Jo the Loiterer. Hapless Andrew Johnson turned up, groaning throughout, "It's cold weather . . . wherever I am." And John Adams sniffed, "Do not pity me; I am an Adams and not pitiable...
...State Department had worried plenty about Alemán's reception (TIME May 5). But within a few hours after he landed at Washington's National Airport, the State Department could loosen its proto-collar...