Word: steps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many others will agree, I'm sure, with the idea that as long as the evolution progresses from the solid body to the space between the eye and the object, and from there to the back of the mind, the next step after modern art will be taken by a man with a hole in his head...
...University of Illinois' Dr. Donald W. Kerst, inventor of the betatron (TIME, Dec. 29, 1941), hopes that the doctors will learn how to cut out the middle step and use the electrons raw upon cancerous tissues...
Paint One Blue. The next step is to estimate the distance by timing the round trip of an individual bee (a worker bee flies about 15 m.p.h,). To do this, one particular bee has to be marked. Hunter Edgell does it by selecting a bee which has worked its way into a cell of the comb and is relatively immune to outside distractions. Then he daubs its rear with blue paint (made from carpenter's chalk and water). On the next trip, the blue-bottomed bee stands out from its fellows...
Over the loud objections of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, the U.S. decided last week to cuddle up a little closer to rebel Communist Tito. The first step was the sale of a $3,000,000 blooming mill to help out Yugoslavia's steel industry. The next would probably be a World Bank loan. Johnson and his military advisers, who see no point in helping a potential enemy and believe that a Communist is a Communist, had fought for months against the idea. But Secretary of State Dean Acheson argued that doing Dictator Tito a few favors...
Iron & Vitamins. The Owenses went a step farther. Vitamin A apparently increases the infant's need for vitamin E, but at the same time it decreases the natural supply of E. In addition, iron added to the prematures' diet to prevent anemia destroys vitamin E. While practically nothing is known about the workings of vitamin E in the human body, this was a lead worth following up. The Owenses arranged to get a special preparation, d-1 alpha tocopherol acetate, rich in vitamin E, to be given in a water base...