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...shortest possible description of the theory is to call it an attempt to explain the large number of particles in the nucleus, not as different forms in themselves, but as different states of one form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 6-D | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...year and a half, East and West had pelted each other with eleven formal diplomatic notes on one subject: unification of Germany. From Washington, Paris and London last week came note No. 12-the shortest and the best so far. It was a crisp, polite invitation to the Soviet Foreign Minister to meet with his Big Three opposite numbers to seek "a solution of the German and Austrian problems," and it got right down to the brass tacks of time (Oct. 15) and place (Lugano, Switzerland). The note did not try to meet attacks made in previous Soviet notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: No. 12 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...found in her own aspirin bottle. Unfortunately, Actor Gotten looks so earnest and bashful at the climax that the audience is apt to wonder whether, after all, he is involved in a matter of life & death or whether he is simply expressing a mortal longing to know the shortest way to the taffrail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 10, 1953 | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

Isabel won the eternal devotion of her people on a sunny Sunday afternoon, May 13, 1888, when with a gold pen set with diamonds and emeralds she signed the shortest law in Brazil's history. It read: "As of this date, slavery in Brazil is declared extinct." It was a great triumph for the plump, fair-haired young princess, then acting as regent for her absent father, Emperor Dom Pedro II. In ten days, after she had reformed the cabinet, she pushed the emancipation bill through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Commoners and courtiers joined in celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Redemptress Returns | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Thirty-six years ago, as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, I saw the "mad major" test an incredible looking crate called a triplane- three wings, one below the other-top wing long, second shorter, third shortest. About 10,000 feet up over Spithead (the strip of water separating the mainland from the Isle of Wight) he made that crate do every trick . . . then put it in a dive and on the way down executed three close loops-one after the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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