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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medications prescribed by Dr. MacKenna sound fine to me, but whatever happened to the treatment with the patient's own blood? When I had acne as a boy in Vienna, my physician used to give me a shot of an antistreptococcic agent every other day, and between days, injections with my own blood. After two months I was practically rid of the acne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...obviously contrived, but that's what Mamma named us.") The girls never had a singing lesson; their voices are rather shaky, and even Daddy never gave them a second listen until one day, driving back from Malibu, he decided that the crooning girls were making "a good sound." Says Patience, who does the talking for the pair: "It's all a great big accident." Says their father: "It just came out of left field. It sort of sneaked in the side door." Trying to describe the girls' burbly, lilting style of singing, Liberty's President Waronker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: P.&P. | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...enormous speed and temperature (even a small jet will quickly chew through a steel plate). Since the jet is largely ionized (electrically charged) particles, it can be accelerated by electric and magnetic fields and forced through a flaring nozzle up to ten to 15 times the speed of sound, the velocity of missiles and space vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Practical Spacemen | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...research, "and at today's take-off and landing speeds, it becomes possible to eject pilots safely at near-zero altitudes-as low as 400 ft. at 850 m.p.h. This thing has the same wing-loading as an airplane. Crude as it looks, it's a very sound aerodynamic device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Flying Seat | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Sound & the Fury. In Des Moines, bogged down in a line of autos, Motorist Norma Bailey leaned long on her horn, then watched as a man got out of the car ahead, calmly raised her vehicle's hood, disconnected the horn wires, got back in his car and drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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