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Rubber Noses. People whose ears are slashed off in auto accidents, or whose noses are eaten away by cancer, cannot always have new ones made of flesh-&-blood grafts. At the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Arthur H. Bulbulian, a trained sculptor, molds artificial noses and ears so rosy and translucent that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Fair | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Polymerization (the process of linking molecules together in long chains) is the key to successful artificial rubber. In natural rubber such molecular chains hold the substance together when it stretches. When chemists stopped trying to duplicate natural rubber's chemical composition, and set out to duplicate its structure and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Synthetic Rubber | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Homeward from Genoa this week steamed the U. S. Lines' Manhattan. Pack jammed aboard her were 2,000 U. S. refugees fleeing from the wrath to come. They had paid $200 to $360 for their passages, were glad indeed to get space in crowded cabins or cots in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Refugees in Dinner Coats | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Like a great dahlia, the sun is ringed with petals of light. The inner corona, one-millionth as bright as the sun's heart, is dazzling yellow, the outer corona pearly white, with delicate, wraithlike streamers. Often the corona is racked by violent eruptions that produce magnetic storms through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eclipses to Order | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

In Washington, a taxi driver found in the back seat of his cab one artificial Negro right leg wearing a sport shoe, sock, and grey trouser.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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