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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against you. It is these unknown powers that condemn you to be treated by a doctor you instantly recognize as a notorious murderer. They are the ones who arrange the subtle changes in weather that oppress you so much, who turn your home into an "ambush," who make your simplest acts and thoughts incomprehensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Powers That Haunt | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...uneasy about the efficiency of U.S. intelligence services. The inept way G-Agents Bergman and Grant fumble around with Mr. Rains's key ring and his cellar, clumsily knocking over bottles of uranium samples, may make audiences conclude that the pair would have tough going with the simplest civil service exam. But with Messrs. Hecht and Hitchcock on their side, no mere Nazi is quick enough for them at the finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...turns in for care at Holyoke Street. While the quality of medical attention offered by the staff is beyond reproach, it is the lack of scope and facilities that forces the average student to spend a tidy sum on outside medical attention if his ills go beyond the simplest sprains and chills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hygiene, Ltd. | 7/23/1946 | See Source »

...hardly different enough to create a stampede for select cooking if everyone with weekly contracts were allowed to eat at any of the dining halls. At present, each House or hall has a list of its members, who are checked off as they pass through the chow line. The simplest method would be to allow interhouse slips to be signed for any guest with an eating contract any place in the University, but if Lehman Hall found this created too much confusion, the dining hall cards to be distributed next fall could be printed like ration cards with space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ninety Cents, Please | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

...enriched uranium begins to cook in a nonexplosive chain reaction is 1.5 kilograms (about 3⅓ Ibs.). Theoretically, a pile might heat up to the temperature of the sun (over 6,000°), but no known container can withstand more than 1,500°. The physicists discovered that the simplest way to throttle down a pile was to thrust into it a cadmium bar, which stops neutrons cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Toys | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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