Word: tween
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three tuberculosis societies held a joint convention.* Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute had at last discovered a method of cultivating TB bacteria, simply and quickly, in test tubes. The basis of Dubos' method is a synthetic detergent made by Atlas Powder Co. (which calls it "Tween 80") for use in cosmetics. Doctors hailed the discovery as the greatest contribution to TB research since Robert Koch first isolated the germ itself...
...years as a 'tween-wars Timesman in Moscow, Duranty won a Pulitzer prize for reporting (1932). wrote a best-seller (I Write As I Please) and some undistinguished fiction. A gay and worldly-wise little man, he got to know the Soviet Russians, stored up a vast stockpile of anecdotes for U.S. lecture audiences...
...international football game be tween Pan American Airways' free com petition and Great Britain's controlled competition, Pan Am had made a brisk first down. It had cut its New York to London fares from $572 to $275. Then Britain had Pan Am penalized: its flights were cut from five a week to two. Pan Am tried a ground gainer: it offered to raise its fares to $375, as suggested by Britain. But Britain called time out, and appealed to the umpire...
...million, 60-car order which, last week, was ready for signing with the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. Three railroads (the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Denver & Rio Grande Western, the Western Pacific) plan to operate the new equipment in ten-car, diesel-powered daily streamliners be tween Chicago and San Francisco. The first of the new trains will go into service next summer...
...fortune from his prac tical inventions, spent much of it on bizarre experiments. Fifteen years ago he took a ship to Cuba's Matanzas Bay, sank a mile-long tube, pumped up cold water from the ocean floor. It was his idea to utilize the temperature differential be tween this cold water and warm surface water to power a turbine. One day his apparatus generated enough power to light 40 500-candlepower bulbs - about 30 horse power (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). When an unknown species of fish was sucked into the tube and retrieved at the surface, the Havana...