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...must utter a short, sharp shout. That is exactly what radar does. It sends staccato "pulses" of electric energy, each less than a millionth of a second in length, at a rate of about 1,000 a second. Each pulse has time to make a round trip (about a thousandth of a second for a target 100 miles away), and record its message without interference from the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radar | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...inevitable plunge into each other's arms has, even at its silliest, some basis in truth. It is by no means new 1) to identify this skirmishing of the sexes with class warfare, 2) to resolve all class distinctions in the clinch. The one thing that gives this thousandth version any novelty is Alan Ladd's triple-chilled proficiency at handling all the tricks of making love in reverse gear. This is as interesting to look at, in a simpleminded way, as someone drinking a glass of beer standing on his head. But it probably takes a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...Harbor, L.I. - pop. 2,517), also attended Cornell, but left to enlist in the Marines in World War I. Swirbul is big, hard-muscled and walks with the quick steps of a prizefighter. He is talkative, exact (Grumman is vague), with a passion for planning production to the last thousandth of an inch. These two temperamental opposites mesh into the smoothest team in the aircraft industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Embattled Farmers | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...substance is a protein with a huge, complex molecule of a type known as a euglobulin. It is called pure pituitary growth hormone. From two pounds of the front part of beef pituitary glands, Dr. Li extracts about a thousandth of an ounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pure Hormone | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...works by blowing a strong jet of mercury or oil vapor into the neck of the vessel to be emptied. The vapor stream traps air molecules and sweeps them out through a series of locks. With this equipment, Morse got down to a working vacuum of one micron (a thousandth of a millimeter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Much Ado About Nothing | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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