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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others have been declassified; they were discovered before the war, or have been recently discovered by independent scientists. No physicist who possesses secret information can be entirely sure what is safe to talk about. If he talks to foreign agents (or even to Americans not approved by the FBI) he might conceivably be risking the death penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dangerous Knowledge | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...E.D.T. and the announcer broke in with the standard cliffhanger: tune in tomorrow and hear what happened. Next day, listeners learned that Jack had survived: he had taken the unusual precaution of packing a third parachute, which he whipped out just in time for a safe landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At This Same Time Tomorrow... | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...results so far are promising. Some impatient delegates, believing that there has been experimenting enough, proposed that all the nation's drinking water be fluorinated without further delay. But the U.S. Public Health Service cautioned that investigators were not yet sure that the fluorine doses under study were safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dentists' Progress | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Although "The Yearling" may remind one of the haunting nature novels of W. H. Hudson, happily it plays safe in keeping its feet firmly on realistic ground. As a background for the romance are the problems of a small farmer in feeding his family, while he lives more or less cut off from the world. The necessary influence of the few contacts with the outside is made clear, and thus the story is kept credible and interesting. On this basis, the fresh imagination of Miss Rawlings' novel delights, hardly ever falling into dreaded bathos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 8/15/1947 | See Source »

...other deputies (80) abstained. Abstention by the Communists got them out of their embarrassing spot as partners in debate of the Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It was also a fairly safe move because last week the radio to Moscow developed bad static, and neither Communists nor anybody else could discover what the Russian line was; Russia has not yet rejected the treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: New Dignity | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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