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Word: spaced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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According to Drs. Libby and Grosse, the tritium now on earth was formed recently by cosmic rays from outer space hitting and smashing nitrogen atoms in the upper atmosphere. During the confusion, some protons knocked out of the nitrogen make off with two neutrons in attendance. The threesomes pick up electrons and become tritium atoms. Eventually they join with oxygen, form water molecules and fall to earth in the rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tritium All Around | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...across the Atlantic. They have studios 'negotiating' deals for their employers which could never eventuate. Why they think I will believe such palpable tripe, let alone pass it on to millions, I can't fathom. I must be rated a pushover, hard up to fill space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Pushover | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...space you save in your refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Yes, We Have No Bananas | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Both were by Parisian sculptors already represented in the museum collection. Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space had long been a polished bronze bone of contention for museumgoers. To some it looked like a crackpot design for a propeller blade; others swore they got the same upward lift from it as from Shelley's To a Skylark. The museum's new Brancusi was a six-foot slab of blue-grey marble, precariously balanced on its side and entitled Fish. It had neither head nor tail, and no one could be sure in which direction the fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surprise! | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...taut, single-minded study of the crack-up of the tormented Moor (played by Britain's Torin Thatcher) under the evil persistence of lago (Alfred Ryder). Producer Fred Coe managed to fill, but not clutter, the TV screen with a swirl of movement, created a sense of space by letting his cameras probe down colonnaded halls and into drapery-hung apartments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Noble Experiment | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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