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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...age when scientific advances occur daily, when engineers are sought by as many as six corporations, one of the most exasperating problems for educators is their failure to interest high school students in science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newton and the Doorbell | 10/17/1957 | See Source »

Speaking to a crowd of over 100 Harvard, Radcliffe and Wellesley students, the Pennsylvania Democrat voiced deep concern over the "age of complacency" which, he said, has prevailed in the U.S. since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark Deplores Complacent Age As Major Danger to Democracy | 10/15/1957 | See Source »

...friend, Wilhelm Fliess, that important things happened to men in cycles of 23 and 28 days, kept harking back to this even after he had broken angrily with Fliess. He was obsessed with the numbers 61 and 62, was long convinced that he would die at one of those ages. After he passed 62 he raised it to 85½, the age at which his father and half-brother had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Last Days of Freud | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...meant lower-class gain, Playwright Osborne writes of a young intellectual who looks back because he has no incentive to look ahead, and looks back in anger because he has no brighter past than future. Exulting in his wrongs rather than crusading for his rights, living in "the American age" but without sharing its rewards, Jimmy-at least on the surface-is resolutely a full-fledged Disorganization Man. But gnawing at him worse than have-not economics is the endemic English intestinal bug of class resentment. Happily, none of this ever becomes a mere plight in man's clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...trouble with Armand was that his bold, naughty papa had marched him to a bordello as a teen-age boy to learn the facts of life, which so flustered the sensitive lad that he flunked the course. Papa had been the iron duke, so imperious that he threatened to have his manservant buried with him when he died, "at my feet, of course." By contrast, poor Armand is such an average Jean that chauffeurs, spotting him near the Daimler, ask him whom he drives for. Can this shy, sweet and sad duke ever find Miss Right? Out of this soapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bubbles & Bemelmanship | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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