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Word: technicians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endowed chair for a professorship in dramatic arts should be established at Harvard, with the holder of the chair also the chairman of the theatre program and the director of the Harvard Theatre. The report also suggested that a second faculty member be appointed to serve as a designer-technician "to aid in maintaining a high quality of theatre...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Committee Proposes $6.5 Million Expansion in Visual Arts Program | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...technician began wondering about the van from New York with two of the remote units. It was scheduled to arrive at 11 a.m., but at last report was wandering around Boston. (It arrived later...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: A Television Show Comes to Harvard | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

...property to serve as a starring vehicle for its president, M. Monroe The property was Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince, a London stage hit in which Sir Laurence Olivier played the prince. Marilyn also bagged the playwright, and soon had another famed theatrical technician, Director John (The African Queen) Huston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who Would Resist? | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Most artificial arms are based on a simple principle: mechanical linkage carries muscle power to the artificial limb, from either the shoulder or the stump muscles. Convinced that mechanically transmitted muscle power was not the best solution, Professor Siegmund Weil and Technician Otto Häfner of Heidelberg University set out to develop a light, small and more efficient substitute. This week, after seven years of research, they were busy teaching amputees how to use their invention: an artificial arm operated by pressurized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pneumatic Arm | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...technician whose best known preoccupation is reaching for the moon, famed German-born Rocketeer Wernher von Broun, went in the opposite direction, harnessed himself into skindiving apparatus and plunged into a tank at Miami's Seaquarium for a submarine safari. Also an underwater hunter, Spaceman von Braun recently bagged a 50-lb. grouper in the shallows off Florida's west coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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