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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...age, a low-altitude bailout has almost always meant quick death for the aircraft pilot. Last week the Navy successfully tested a British low-altitude ejection seat that may become the American military pilot's best friend. See SCIENCE, "Positively Wizard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 9, 1957 | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...initiative," said the citation two years ago, and all Fort Worth beamed with pride. As the city's "Outstanding Young Man of 1955," Jack Donald Hubbard, then 35, was the kind of bigger-than-life operator that Texans instantly recognize and dearly love. Starting as a teen-age bank runner, he had become president of the Bank of Commerce, a church elder, a United Fund official, district chairman of the Boy Scouts and of a Savings Bond drive. Last week Fort Worth learned just how extraordinary Jack Hubbard's talents were. A federal grand jury indicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: How to Fly a Kite | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...mind has perhaps intuitively felt the "outsider" in its midst. For Cozzens is really alien grain in the American corn. Americans (particularly American writers) are apt to be romantics to the point of being moistly sentimental; Cozzens is classical, dry, cerebral. Americans have a youth complex; Cozzens has an age complex. Americans are optimistic; Cozzens is pessimistic (he would say realistic). Americans like change; Cozzens accepts but deplores it. Americans are temperamentally democratic; Cozzens is temperamentally aristocratic. Americans like to touch and handle life; Cozzens, a man who wears gloves winter and summer, prefers to contemplate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...town. In the gallery of lawyers serving beneath the bell, the outstanding figure is Noah Tuttle, Winner's senior partner, a doughty old lion of the law in his white-maned 80s, crotchety, plainspoken, a portable archive of torts, statutes and the cumulative wisdom of old age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Robert Hillyer, Classicist Dudley Fitts et al.-and kept flailing away at a novel that appeared early in his sophomore year. Aptly titled Confusion, it concerned a shimmering young sylph named Cerise D'Atreé who was caught in the Fitzgerald undertow and dragged to an early Jazz Age death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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