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Word: untill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Variable stars, says Stanley-Jones, may work the same way. When the star is in ai normal quiescent condition, its heavy fissionable atoms are too far apart for a chain reaction to get started. Being heavy, they sink gradually toward the center of the star. As they sink, they approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nature's Atom Bombs | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

In a Castle Closet. Not until last summer, 18 years later, did Dieckmann, now a U.S. citizen, get back to France. This time, he wrote, telephoned and called on the baron. Finally, the baron told him to go out to his castle outside Fécamp: there were some papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dream Chaser | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Last week the public learned that five atomic scientists have had their eyes dimmed by cyclotron cataracts. Three of the victims had been working with the University of Illinois' cyclotron. Physicist Lloyd Smith, now 26, helped install it in 1943, and he did not notice a cloudiness in one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cyclotron Cataracts | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Too Many Secrets. The gist of the findings was that industry could not help AEC until AEC told industry much more about the atomic energy program. AEC should modify its sweeping code of secrecy, the committee said, since in many cases it was unnecessary and downright harmful to the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Atom Blast | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Every Girl Should Be Married (RKO Radio) describes the husband-hunting safari of a gawky young shop girl (Betsy Drake) who wants a husband to sit in a "big crunchee chair . . . so kind of pipee and bookee" beside the log fire (probably smokee). Her chosen prey is a morose baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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