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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though some specialized displays--such as the Bronze Age tools--which are designed for the use of graduate students, have been newly revised, some of the small rooms await completion and others have yet to be renovated. For the specialist, this means that the displays are hopelessly out-of-date and educationally ineffective...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Peabody Collection: Anthropologists' Delight | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

...boom confined to inboard power boats. The big schooners of yesteryear are down to a handful, but they have been replaced many times over by 35-and 45-ft. yawls and ketches, better suited to an age dominated by the income tax and the high cost of other people's labor. Harbors from Maine to California swarm with new thousands of prams, skiffs and small sailing craft. Lumped under the heading of non-powered boats, such craft increased from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boat Fever | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...metabolism of these substances depend on how well the thyroid gland is functioning. This close relationship between two supposedly distinct systems had not been suspected. A significant item: the body's output of androsterone declines with advancing years. This may explain why some diseases increase in old age, and suggests a clue to ways of slowing them down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Disease | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...well as in man's digestive tract. Once rated almost harmless, it is now a killer. In sum, optimists who think it is old-fashioned nonsense to talk about fatal "blood poisoning" are wrong. There are now more deaths from septicemia than there were before the antibiotic age, said Dr. Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mixed Blessing | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...carried away with the pathetic figure of a poor downtrodden peasant of the French Empire. He fails to recall that Stendahl saw Julien Sorel's answer to constricting French society as understandable, but not laudable. Sorel is no hero of the poor, he is simply the unfortunate of his age...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Red and the Black | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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