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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "Your efforts in devising a compatible television system will long be remembered as a magnificent achievement of science . . . There may be those who may desire to drag their feet at this point. Please do not allow them to slow you down. Please keep up the steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Color by Christmas? | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...machine in the medical room of Dillon Field house is indeed the overpowering object. But scattered there, one finds other objects perhaps as fascinating. Old tennis shoes, scales, rules, pamphlets, a red lantern hanging from a steam pipe, a Zimmer skeletal fracture chart, a sign--"office closed Saturdays and Sundays in summer...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Technical Humor | 4/24/1953 | See Source »

...physics, and mathematics is designed for two types of students. The first is the person who has a sincere interest in either physics or chemistry, but lacks the ability to puzzle out the complex mathematical formulas of physics, or the patience to spend his spring afternoons sweating over a steam bath in the chem lab. The second type is the student who wants to get a diversified scientific education in preparation for a career in industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History & Literature to Social Relations | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

Working Off Steam. The man most responsible for the exhibit is a friendly young (32) Boston artist named Alfred M. (for Milton) Duca, who has no illusions about the work of his young proteges. He knows that most of them will forget all about painting before they grow up. He doesn't care. The program aims mainly at giving Boston's slum children a chance to work off some steam and learn the pleasures of creative expression. "One thing we're trying to do here," says Duca. "is keep them out of gangs. We want to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting for Fun | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Died. Gano Dunn, 82, international construction tycoon, longtime (since 1913) president of the J. G. White Engineering Corp., whose monuments include Pearl Harbor's naval oil base, the Muscle Shoals steam plant and a string of Latin American power dams; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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