Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sarnoff dug out his old 1915 memo and tried it on Young, who liked the "music box" idea. But RCA's directors were willing to risk only $2,000. Sarnoff gave a demonstration that woke them up. He borrowed a Navy transmitter and helped give a blow-by-blow...
A startling statistic last week made a front-page sensation out of a subject usually discussed only in the improbable columns of the Sunday supplements: narcotics addiction. New York City's Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, questioned during a state narcotics investigation, testified that one out of every 200...
Easy Prey. The Navajos, already wretched in their poverty and disease (TIME, Nov. 3, 1947), were easy prey for peyote peddlers. The stuff offered them escape from their troubles. After a twinge of nausea (felt only by beginners), the peyote-chewer gets an otherworldly sensation of being in two parts...
Time was when Unus, the man who stands on his forefinger, was the sensation of the Ringling circus. This year Unus is no longer with it. In his place is another gent who stands on an even smaller finger, his pinkie; and this only as a curtain-raiser to similar...
Experiments on the phenomenon, long an enigma, have been going on here for over a year. George Wald, professor of Biology, Ruth H. Hubbard, research fellow in Biology, and Paul K. Brown, reported to the Society last year that they could manufacture synthetic rhodopsin, a red pigment found in the...