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Word: ades (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ade. In Houston, the city council voted to accept a new $2,700,000 police headquarters and jail, but withheld $25,000 from Architect Kenneth Frankheim's fee because he had his name engraved in marble on the front of the building, put the names of councilmen on a bronze plaque inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Their deceptively innocent emblem was the Renaissance façade of the Campidoglio, Rome's city hall, designed by Michelangelo and beloved by all Romans. They called their candidates' roster the Lista Cittadina-the citizens' list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Battle for Rome | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...come about that he was so much misunderstood?") and also with his coalminer's pickax: "His ego now fills the whole cosmos." Violently he played the Bevanite line that Britain's rearmament and her U.S. alliance carry her toward war. ". . . Behind the guise and façade of the United Nations, the Americans are waging an ideological war with weapons against the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tory Triumph | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...French deported Papasha in 1908, when they caught him passing 500-ruble notes stolen in the bloody Tiflis bank robbery engineered by Joseph Stalin. In England, as gentle, homy Mr. Harrison of Harrington Square, he erected a façade of innocuous jobs (publisher's assistant, bookkeeper, language teacher, corset salesman), took on Western airs and a Western wife. She was Ivy Low, radical daughter of an English writer. He came to admire the works of Henry James, Jane Austen, Beethoven and Bach; he took up contract bridge. But Litvinoff remained Bolshevik to the core-a blunt, opportunistic, skeptical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Other Face | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...creations of American living quarters from 1640 to 1840. Winterthur's indoor bowling alley had become an 18th Century shop lane gleaming with china and pewterware. The badminton court was now a cobbled indoor square with fine old house fronts on three sides, and the brick façade of an inn from Red Lion, Del. on the fourth. Even the elevators were finished in antique American paneling. Among the prize exhibits: a set of silver tankards made by Paul Revere, an 18th Century Philadelphia highboy for which Du Pont paid a reported $44,000, and paintings by John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: No. I Antiquer | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

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