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Word: watered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a false start last week, the Crimson crews took to the water this week for the beginning of the spring rowing season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oarsmen Start River Practice | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

...Water Leveler. Spotting a member of a delegation from Ghana at the table, he raised a toast to "Africa and all countries fighting for their independence." Said Khrushchev: "Our hearts are on their side. People are the same all over the world. One cannot tell a czar from anyone else. All people look alike in the bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Are In No Hurry | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...after day, he labored, heaping up the sand in a big, flat-topped pyramid some twelve feet square, the sides banked at just the right angle to avoid cave-ins, the corners smoothed to knife-edge symmetry, a system of ditches carefully plotted to drain off the ground water, a ramp from the beach to his plateau of sand. When the pyramid was about seven feet high it was finished, and the sweating professor toted to the top one of the hooded wicker chairs that are popular on European beaches. There on his sand castle he would sit overlooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Be or Not to Be | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...makers have been a major spur to the growth of ultrasonics. Before the development of ultrasonic cleaners, jet-engine nozzles and oil filters had to be thrown away when dirty. Now imbedded residue can be removed in minutes through the use of sound energy. The sound waves whip the water into millions of microscopic bubbles which burst against the material, ripping dirt away. No transistor core goes to its final assembly package without an ultrasonic bath to remove impurities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Ultrasonics: Unheard Progress | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...adhere to the shell and killing the fetus), or in hot dry weather leaves the nest and lets them dry out. Durr's mechanical mother turns each egg every hour, and when a thermometer warns that the relative humidity is too low. shoots in a fine spray of water. Durr staggers the eggs, in each incubator, because from the 16th day until the 21st, when the chick breaks through the shell, a hatching chicken gives off heat, thereby thriftily helps incubate the eggs put in later. This way Durr has to turn on the electricity only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Pushbutton Cornucopia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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