Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lengthening Shadow. Examination of Earl Warren's 25-year record in public office fails to reveal much promise that he is a potential giant in U.S. history. The Warren utterances and speeches have never risen above the level of safe, dull political prose. He has rarely tried anything which had not been tried before. A calm man of Swedish descent, slow to anger, he has stuck close to the middle of the road. But the record does reveal an able, hardworking, personally attractive public servant who, with the westering sun of California behind him, is casting a longer...
...microanalyzer" is a fledgling still in his late 20s, James Hillier, co-inventor of the electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940). The general atomic composition of bacteria and viruses is well known-they are mostly carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen. But under high electronic magnification (100,000 times), bacteria often reveal granules of previously undetected substances that are hard to identify. The granules are much too small to be analyzed by a spectroscope, the conventional instrument for the quick determination of atomic components...
...that he lived in a time of civil war, when a 1500-year-old dynasty was disintegrating, and when the future was beyond man's imagining. He was an adviser of governors, traveling from one small warring province to another, a human divining rod, whose teachings served to reveal the good and the bad in the sovereigns while he tried to find one who would make his principles the guiding policy of the state...
Numerous prediction tables presented in the new work reveal the possibility of determining the kind of penal or correctional treatment from which a particular offender is most likely to benefit...
...liking for people, especially patients (most of his are women), appears throughout the book. He likes them even though nearly 40 years of listening to troubles have given him such a comprehensive view of human frailty that he can guess many sins a patient is too shy to reveal. Here & there a sharp comment appears: "As I often say to women, the greatest trouble with them as a sex is their pettiness and their inability usually to differentiate what is really important from what is inconsequential...