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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Childless husband with infertile wife wants female donor for test-tube baby. Caucasian background. Indicate fee and age. All answers confidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Hiring Mothers | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Though Waller was a national figure when, in 1943, he died of pneumonia at the age of 39, he was almost forgotten until Maltby revived his music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Harlem's Sultan of Stride | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...horses freely roamed. For long periods, winters were cruelly cold, and even in summertime the average temperature was 12° to 15° C (54° to 59° F.). Still, under these difficult conditions, during a period of 25,000 years before the dawn of civilization, the Ice Age Cro-Magnon people not only thrived, but created a surprisingly sophisticated culture that totally belies the popular image of them as savage, club-swinging brutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Treasure from the Ice Age | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...long last, a collection of 250 of the world's oldest known works of art is on display at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, in an exhibition called "Ice Age Art." A few, like the carved stone amulet of a female pregnant on one side but not on the other, are priceless originals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Treasure from the Ice Age | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...horse carved out of a mammoth tusk; it hardly seems possible that this graceful piece, fashioned more than 30,000 years ago, is one of the oldest objets d'art ever found. No less remarkable are the voluptuous "Venus" statuettes, some of them coiffed in Stone Age chic, that date back some 27,000 years. Even the wall paintings, some of them on a larger-than-life scale, show a mastery of form and perspective that was not seen again for almost 6,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Treasure from the Ice Age | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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