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...From the fourth grade up, Australia is generally regarded as the world's smallest continent, Greenland the largest island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...complex minuteness of even the smallest portal-to-portal suit is indicated by Judge Picard's opinion in the progenitor of all such suits--the Mount Clemens Pottery Company case. He quotes as an indispensable part of his decision such fascinating statistics as these: mean distance from time clock to the bisque sagger filling department 528 feet; time required to reach Bisque sagger filling department at the determined walking rate of 250 or 275 feet per minute, depending on whether the worker enters from the South or North gate 1.92 minutes; time to grease arms 30 seconds; time to take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Minimis Non Curat Lex | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

WINTE are the call letters of the smallest sending set in the college, a Wermacht "walkie-talkie," owned and operated by Robert W. Merriam '45, who "liberated" his apparatus in Europe. A battery-operated transmitter, its range is limited to approximately one mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Hams Hit Air-Waves Again On Pre-War Basis | 1/24/1947 | See Source »

This was the world's first uranium pile. Within it, if all went well, would rage the first nuclear chain reaction. Physicist Enrico Fermi, Italian-born Nobel Prizewinner, was sure that all would go well. He had figured every smallest detail, advancing through theory and mathematics far into the unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Zip Out | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...smallest golfer in the crowd put all his 135 Ibs. behind one all-out swing. The ball screamed down the fairway, stopped 275 yards away. Ben Hogan was satisfied with his drive. That was the only shot in a tournament that he really enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Iceman Winneth | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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