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Last week another inscription was hung up on a signpost on the fifth floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lady in Command | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...east, the Federal Civil Defense Administration had built a simulated suburb: two typical frame houses, looking prim and white among the yucca trees. Nearby a typical signpost read Elm & Main. Typical U.S. cars were spotted in the imaginary parking places of the imaginary town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Elm & Main | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Purist. In Beaminster. England, Peter Tunstall was fined $5.60 for "malicious damage" after he uprooted a signpost that read "Drive Slow," wrote on it: "Disgusted at this display of bad English. Please rewrite and re-erect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Buck called 'the coming of age of research" a fundamental quality factor of modern education which the Commission typically underemphasized in its enthusiasm for quantity. The Report in many places, he added, "is inconsistent and inaccurate." It nevertheless serves as a "signpost," In minimizing the dangers of "control" from the inevitable Federal aid, Buck stated his fear of influence upon freedom 'to experiment and to excel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck, Harris Disagree With Education Report | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

This week at the University of Minnesota, two top-level professors-Dr. Robert G. Green, expert in bacteriology and immunology, and Dr. John J. Bittner, geneticist and cancer biologist-nailed up an important signpost in medicine's fight against cancer. They reported that they had discovered: 1) a filterable virus which definitely causes breast cancer in mice; 2) an anti-cancer serum which kills the mouse cancer cells, in test tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Virus | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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