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Word: turned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move to Sanders resulted from overcrowding in Emerson D last week. Originally scheduled in the Lamont Forum Room, the lecture was moved to Emerson to accomodate a capacity turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Lectures | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...Captain From Koepenick is a full color re-make of a mid-30's film about the Prussian military at the turn of the century. The story involves an ex-convict, who, becoming piqued with the government, buys an old infantry uniform, commandeers a dozen healthy, helmeted Berlin youths, marches them to the neighboring town of Koepenick, and ends up arresting the mayor and sending him to jail. The film, as it might appear, is primarily a comedy, and the last fifteen minutes are delightful in a Teutonic, beer and wursty manner...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Captain From Koepenick | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...more important than two that stand on the threshold between nonlife and life: ribonucleic acids (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA). Nothing can live without some kind of RNA, and the kind of RNA it produces, which determines whether it will become an amoeba or a mammoth, is in turn determined by its DNA, the template of heredity. Last week two U.S. physician-scientists were named winners of the 1959 Nobel Prize ($42,606) in medicine for having synthesized giant molecules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Secrets of Life | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...Landers, 38, who owns 400 acres near Grand Ridge, opened wide the throttle of his big International tractor and roared into a 20-acre cornfield. The three heads on his $2,400 corn picker attacked the tall standing rows of corn. Long before Farmer Landers had made even one turn around the field, the trailer hitched to his tractor was overflowing with fat, golden ears. His expected yield: 90 bu. to the acre, v. less than 60 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Corn Hangover | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Many carriers who must wait their turn on jet-production lines are anxious to hold off until they receive their planes and are ready to compete. Both Alitalia and Japan Air Lines, which get their first jets next spring, do not want to lower fares or lift surcharges on jet flights (first class: $30 to Japan, $20 to Europe) in their areas immediately. Says one Japan Air Lines man: "We'll cut when we have our own jets, and that's the position of any airline without jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL AIR FARES | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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