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Word: thawed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be needed to chop out the ice by hand, and more scientific means prove futile. Salt removes the street as well as the ice, and flame throwing devices only turn the dirty brown mixture an oily black. Only an act of God, such as the recent quick thaw, can bring relief to the Cantabridgian who longs for the ice-free avenues of such a relatively southern metropolis as New York. When one is in Cambridge, one must grin and bear and take a long historical view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Age | 1/24/1947 | See Source »

...refining process kill the virus? Loring and Schwerdt thought lowering the temperature might keep the virus alive. As part of a long process, they made an extract from the brains and spinal cords of polio-infected cotton rats, froze it. Then, letting it start to thaw, they whirled their material in an ultra-high-speed centrifuge (60,000 revolutions per minute) to separate its protein, and with chemicals refined the protein further. Eventually they isolated a particle less than two-billionths of an inch in diameter. The protein particle proved to be 80 to 95% pure virus; a billionth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Search for a Virus | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...sound, middle-of-the-road, and commanded respect in Congress. He had helped his friend Fred Vinson (then Secretary) on the laborious backstage negotiations for the British loan. A hardheaded Ambassador like Gardner will be useful to the U.S. next July when, under the loan terms, the British must thaw out enough currency now frozen in the sterling area to give U.S. current creditors payment in dollars. For hard-pressed Britain, this will not be easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: To the Crossroads | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...hovering for months above the horizon, it will still be a bleak region. Its peaks, soaring to a frigid 15,000 feet, have little need for "keep off" signs. Man cannot support himself in the Antarctic, but with elaborate precautions he can maintain himself there long enough to thaw out some of its deep-frozen secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Last Continent | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...excellent the production and performance, the essence of great dramatic poetry is verbal, and the bottom of this play's new success was that Andre Gide had kept the greatness of great words in a new language. Samples: ¶ O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! (Chair trap massive, Oh! Si tu pouvais fondre, T'evaporer, te resoudre en rosee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hamlet in Paris | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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