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Word: sheetings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victims were male guinea pigs. Thirteen were penned in small cages 18 inches from the antenna of a radar transmitter. Nine were exposed to the waves direct. Others were shielded by sheet copper, which would not stop any X rays the apparatus might be emitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Baldness Either | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Classics and Philosophy for the first time in over a year broke into the tally sheet with one enrollment. The Atomic Age, however, failed to provide any concentrators in Electronic Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concentration Choices Of '49b Applications Swing to Government | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

Tolly conducts at a decorous tea shop in Wimbledon. Last fall they wrote Cruising and entered it in a contest; it won first prize over 58,000 entries. It has now sold over 380,000 copies of sheet music, and earned ?5,000 in royalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lady Hit-Paraders | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Song of the Apple). It was Japan's first big sentimental song hit since 1941, when Japanese music went martial. Tokyo's radio station JOAK got 100 requests a day for it. It had sold 200,000 phonograph records and 50,000 copies of sheet music, and would have sold more if its publishers had had the materials. Even G.I.s hummed it. Apple's lyrics, translated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Japan's Big Apple | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...radio, his recorder rolled out a 9½-by-12-inch newspaper like a paper towel, 500 words a minute, 16 pages an hour. No linotype, press or delivery boy was needed; everything on the pages was broadcast free. It came in clear as an advertiser's tear sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Newspaper of the Air | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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