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Johns Hopkins' William Foxwell Albright, 67, expert in Palestinian archaeology. Big (6 ft.), bald Sand-Sifter Albright began to explore Palestine in the days when such explorations consisted chiefly of dismounting from one's camel and commencing to dig. A scholar instead of a treasure hunter, he painstakingly collected and fitted together pottery fragments scorned by some earlier diggers, succeeded in bringing a large measure of order to the history of Palestine in the 3,000 years before Christ. Among his qualifications for archaeology: great physical durability and a command of some 25 languages, including enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...recipes are flashed onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts a turkey in 45. Even the flour-sifter is motor-driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kitchen Comeback | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Then the dry mix. Flour: two parts white, one part whole wheat. Add baking powder, two tablespoons. Add salt to taste -if the party had a drink the night before, add a little bit more salt so they can taste the pancake. Put it through the sifter together. Then stir until the batter is smooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Salmon & Pancakes | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Horace Wells was not "Dazzled with hopes of a fortune. . . ." If he had been, he would have patented his discovery as he had patented two previous commercial discoveries, a coal sifter and a shower bath. When urged to patent this discovery, Wells declared, "No, let it be as free as the air we breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...their trade association, opened the meeting by chanting in unison: WHERE'S THIS YEAR'S PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS PETER PIPER PICKED? There was not a man present that could not reel off Peter Piper without a bobble, and older hands did not boggle Theophilus the thistle-sifter. But full as they were of percussive alliteration they were no mere funsters. They were members of the 46-year-old National Pickle Packers Association representing 85% of an industry which has done a business of as much as $50,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Processed Cucumbers | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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