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Word: accidentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard provides a demanding enough environment for students who go there on purpose. But Loxosceles laeta, a poisonous South American spider that matriculated at Cambridge by accident, finds the university a friendly place indeed. Laetas have established a thriving colony in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spider Colony | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

It was a time for all uncommonly good men to come to the aid of the Republican Party in Colorado. Convinced that the G.O.P. would have carried the Colorado house of representatives last year "if one candidate hadn't shot himself up in a hunting accident and if [Rocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 22, 1961 | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

Perhaps the most successful job of muckraking was Upton Sinclair's searing novel, The Jungle, which contained among other things an indictment of the meatpacking industry that was grotesque but effective: "Here came also cattle which had been fed on 'whiskey-malt,' the refuse of the breweries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Time for Anger | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

The Cambridge Rescue Squad, a private ambulance, and several Quincy residents were at the scene of the accident.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Niebuhr Suffers Minor Fall | 12/19/1961 | See Source »

The barber's case was one of the most successful among 25 patients in whom Orthopedic Surgeon Adrian E. Flatt has installed a total of 92 steel joints at Iowa City's University Hospitals. Some have been working well for 3½ years. British-born Dr. Flatt got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Steel Knuckles | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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