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While two fashion greats, Balenciaga and Givenchy, are still to be heard from, there is little even they can do to temper the new S-shape. But when the conventional alphabet is exhausted, tomorrow's woman may very well look like a la mode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: S for Shape | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...three every second, producing 100 to 300 millionths of a volt each. The wave pattern is large, slow and evenly curved but cut by sharp downward strokes which perhaps reflect convulsions in the brain. During the depths of the epileptic fit, the characteristic long slow curves assume an unbroken S-shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epileptic Brain Waves | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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