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...find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks. They even drift them downriver. The location and dispersion of mines on the east coast above the 38th parallel indicate that some may be sown by Russian submarines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR AT SEA: Mines Ahead | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...when safely up and away. In spite of such precautions it will not be a pleasant airport-mate. Once its reactors have run for a while, they will be radioactive even when shut down. If atom-planes ever become common, the fields from which they fly will be thickly sown with radiation alarms and patrolled by safety personnel armed with radiation detectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms Aloft | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...idea that those universities were ivory towers, Forests of Arden, places where young people went to spend their formative years and develop healthy American ideas. It has seen college life as an existence protected from the harsh facts of economic reality, a place where wild oats could be sown, reaped, trampled on, or uprooted without any effect on society as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement of What? | 6/21/1951 | See Source »

...dusty desert to the east of the Organ Mountains is sown with nonhuman eyes: radars, telescopic cameras, instruments to measure the missile's enormous speed. Housed in small concrete buildings or perched on platforms, they cover the whole range, which is roughly 40 miles wide and 100 miles long. Roosting on high mountains are astronomical telescopes with 16-inch mirrors that can photograph the missile like a planet in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birds of Mars | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Even as the half ended the seeds of defeat were being sown--Gerry Murphy got his fourth personal on a questionable call, and did not start the next half. In his place was sophomore Forrest Hansen, who added rebounding strength but made mistakes owing to inexperience...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Yale Five Overcomes Crimson, 72-70 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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