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Berliners noted that, despite high-level peace parleys, the local Russians were being their usual selves. But experts in Russian behavior professed to detect a slight softening around the edges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Waiting | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...left out. The added bits did not help much, but Axtell's colorless glue was a great improvement. Before, the breaks in the glass had been apparent several feet away; last week, with the urn again on exhibition in the British Museum, it took a sharp eye to detect the breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Good Glue | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...virtually eliminated tracking error. But the total distortion normally created by tracking error is less than the distortion of most amplifiers, so that tracking error is not heard except on the very fine machines. The fault Victor is correcting in its "quality zone" is therefore one few listeners can detect...

Author: By Edward J. Sack and David H. Wright, S | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

This has been a constant source of astonishmen to Bunnie Hutchers. They never understood what strange enchantment drew people to Eliot and Lowell, and they never could detect the Leverett halitosis that seemed to drive freshmen away in flocks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Claims Good Staff, Beer Parties, and Vacancies | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

Yale's late William Lyon Phelps had only one reservation about his friend President Angell. "There should be some dullness in every college president," Phelps once remarked. "Knowing Angell intimately, I have never been able to detect even a shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale-Builder | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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