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Word: saltingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot said it was his roughest trip in four years. The big, silver United Air Lines Willkie Special lurched in the uneasy air, sometimes dropped 60 feet in a bump. Candidate Wendell Willkie and his wife, flying from Salt Lake City to Colorado Springs, kept their chins up as well as any one. Far below lay grand U. S. scenery that would have been more reassuring if God had provided more landing fields upon it-the jutting peaks of the snow-clad Rockies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bolters | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

This was part of Candidate Willkie's long rest before beginning a strenuous campaign. Last week he also visited three rodeos, ate thoroughly at a Cheyenne, Wyo. barbecue, made seven speeches, watched a one-hour parade in his honor in Salt Lake City, met Westerners at short train stops, upped the number of voters who had cheered him on his Western trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bolters | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...School of Journalism, 40-year-old Samuel Chang was a director of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, and agency superintendent of Owner Starr's Asia Life Insurance Co. (Chang's wife, a graduate of the University of Utah, is the daughter of a Chinese doctor in Salt Lake City.) He was also a friend of New York Times Correspondent Hallett Abend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Order in Shanghai | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...they stir up the public authorities against them; in times of excitement and hysteria they organize mobs and beat them up. . . . Lastly there is the irritating question of the flag salute. . . . What were the early Christians doing but this very thing when they refused to put their pinch of salt upon the altars of the Roman emperor?" The practical examiner was Reporter Malcolm Logan of the New York Post, whose series of four articles disclosed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses Examined | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...means of a magnetic-cycle cooling technique, low-temperature researchers have chilled certain salts to the astonishing temperature of .003°K. The method makes use of the principle that magnetization heats matter, demagnetization chills it. After preliminary cooling with liquid helium, the salt is magnetized, the heat thus generated drawn off into a jacket filled with helium vapor; then demagnetization pushes the substance down one notch further into the cold. But the limits of this method, as applied to the magnet ism of molecules, have been nearly reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Approach to Absolute | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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