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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The President was surprised. He had only wanted to reward a blood relative, as he had done in naming his brother Alvaro as head of the government land office, his niece Soledad Ydígoras as chief of procurement for school supplies, and Julia's son Boris as assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Julia's Cousin | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Albers' inkless intaglios were made by pressing wet, heavy paper onto an engraved plate. They result from hundreds of ink and pencil drawings on graph paper made over the past decade. Why does he print without ink? "I am trying to reduce my means-it is a demonstration of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prints Without Ink | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

TOP PILOT PAY of $33,000 a year will go to jet captains flying maximum of 85 hours a month for Pan American World Airways, up from current ceiling of $25,000 for DC-7C skipper. New Pan Am contract also puts three pilots plus flight engineer in jets.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

"I am not alive. I am dead," wrote Mark Twain. "I wish to keep that fact plainly before the readers. If I were alive I would be writing an autobiography on the normal plan." There was certainly nothing normal and no plan about his autobiography. He began writing it at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Mark Said About Sam | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

"I am fifty years old today, on this feast of St. Mark, the beloved evangelist with whose lion heart my own . . . beats like a drum; and if you think that I am going to starve for your benefit, so that you may pirate my work after my death, you are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unholy Terror | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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