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Word: sheeting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities and sleepy provinces, where the Tour is remembered all year, schools and businesses close to cheer it through. A brassy blend of road show and county fair, the juggernaut blocks traffic for two hours as it passes. Founded by a promotion-minded sporting sheet with the inappropriate name of L'Auto, the Tour is financed by advertisers, who pay up to $4,000 for the privilege of following the racers with sound trucks that blare praise for products from apéritifs to aspirin. (The Tour's current sponsors are two French papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Time of the Velo | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...comes from faulty equipment. To prove it, he ran a check on the 33 stethoscopes used by his Charleston colleagues at Medical College Hospital, found his suspicions confirmed. Two-thirds of the stethoscopes were defective. The doctors using them would be almost as well off with a rolled-up sheet of paper-which is just what the stethoscope was when first conceived by French Physician René Laënnec in 1816. Among the most common failings that Dr. Groom found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stethoscope Disease | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Last week, adding up the balance sheet of the enterprise at the close of the graduation season, Fradkin reported that 400 scholarships had been granted by local communities out of a total collection of between $100,000 and $125,000. Sighed starry-eyed Optometrist Fradkin: "If we can do what we have done with no money, what could we do with money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Do-lt-Yourself Scholarships | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...Chinese Premier Chou En-lai himself came to Ulan Bator and signed a treaty providing for $50 million in long-term loans to build a cotton mill, a sheet-glass factory, a 10,000-ton steel mill, an irrigation system, a circus, and a project for 240,000 square meters of apartment housing for Ulan Bator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outer Mongolia: The Red Mugwump | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...engineer's blueprint. He wakes at 5, meditates for a while, and then, in measured steps, proceeds to his white studio, designed by U.S. Architect (and fellow Catalonian) José Luis Sert. There, surrounded by favorite shapes and objects-a rotting rudder, a rusting anchor, a decaying sheet of metal, bits of pottery, and some toy turtles-he contemplates for about an hour. "By this time," says he, "I am filled with fury for my work, and I am ready to jump off the balcony." Instead, he paints through the morning. After lunch and a rest, he sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pam! Pam! Zang! Zang! | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

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