Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spun to keep it whirling cleanly instead of tumbling. It squeals like a bagpipe as it signals from two transmitters-one powered by a chemical battery, the other solar-powered and possibly could transmit for the expected life of the satellite-20 years. But, through a unique timing device, the radio will shut off after one year so as not to clutter the air waves. Explorer VII takes over from the Explorer VI paddlewheel (TIME, Aug. 17), whose solar-powered radio, expected to run for years, disappointingly signed off a fortnight...
...nights were longer or shorter than they really were seasonally, the scientists were able to make plants bloom months early or late. They have so efficiently programed some pine trees that they grew only 8 in. in four years-responding to the signal that it is winter, no time for growth-while their unmolested neighbors rose...
...elderly and omnivorous readers is an obligation that President and Editor Nelson P. Poynter, whose family has owned this old-gold mine for years, is happy to discharge. Indeed, the oldsters have had a healthy effect on the paper itself. "They make you think twice before generalizing," said a Times staffer : "They really read the newspaper. They not only have the time, they have the informed interest. They're a challenge." Meeting that challenge has helped rank the St. Petersburg Times among the South's most solid newspapers...
...Kornberg says: "I got tired of feeding things into one end of an experiment and watching something come out of the other without understanding what goes on in the middle." Besides mothering their three sons, Sylvy Ruth Kornberg, M.S., has co-authored many papers with her husband, works full time in his Stanford University laboratory...
...Plains had been without a physician since 1951, when Dr. Colquitt Logan virtually retired at 71 after having two operations for cataracts. Like 50-odd Georgia towns (and 1,450 now on record in the U.S.) listed as wanting a doctor, Plains might have gone doctorless for a long time...