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Word: thryatron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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M.I.T. has become a place for differential analyzers, spectro-photometers, oscillographs and thryatron tubes. Out of its laboratories it has managed to produce such unexpected specimens as Humorist Gelett Burgess and Author Stuart Chase. But M.I.T.'s alumni are more apt to be of another sort: Donald Douglas of Douglas Aircraft, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, and at least ten Du Fonts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A New Ingredient | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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