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Dates: during 1940-1940
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General Electric Research Laboratories in Schenectady last week unveiled a giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 1,000,000 Volts | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...bone cancers especially, said Dr. Kenney last week, radioactive phosphorus "offers a real hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Phosphorus for Cancer | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Yardlings also face the boys from Medford in what will probably prove a rout. Their team was pretty weak last Saturday, and Bobby King, the only man to pin his opponent, is out with a broken collar-bone...

Author: By Evan Calkins, | Title: GRAPPLERS TO FACE RUGGED TUFTS TEAM IN MATCH TODAY | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

Trophies at Lough Gur came from all ages: stone axes, flint weapons and tools, a bronze bracelet and bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Irish | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Professor: Nevertheless, he'll be working under a terrific strain. Well, there's Tuss McLaughry of Brown. Tuss, I've got a bone to pick with Harvard on your behalf. Despite the elaborate fanfare of publicity from the Harvard Athletic Association, Soldiers Field Saturday looked like they used the Cambridge Fire Department on it the night before. Just a minute, here's Master Tom Stephenson. Come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

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