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Word: amsterdam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength and impact than the contrived art of today," Collector Wurtzburger decided. But when the Wurtzburgers tried to collect representative pieces, they found that Africa as a source of primitive art has all but dried up. The best pieces had already drifted to dealers in London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: OCEANIC ART: MASKS OF BEAUTY | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...additions include a gift from the Yale University Library, the "Astronomia Instaurata" of Copernicius, once owned by the first president of Harvard, Henry Dunster. This edition, printed in Amsterdam in 1617, presents Copernicus' theory of a sun-centered planetary system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Library Acquires Editions Of Dante, Bacon | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...grandparents of 15 wonderful children and far be it from me, and I am sure from TIME also, to give them false ideas as to the "naughtiness" of grandpa and grandma at the ripe ages of 75 and 55. So here is the story of the Amsterdam episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Club officers last night announced that seven countries are included on a tentative itinerary. Tht tour will begin on June 17 with a concert at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. From there, the Club will go to Belgium, five cities in France, seven in Italy, two in Austria, eight in Germany, and a final week in England. The six-week tour will end July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Seeks Additional Funds To Tour Europe | 12/6/1955 | See Source »

...Playboy. Citroën was founded by puckish, pudgy André Citroën, playboy son of an immigrant Amsterdam jeweler, who turned out his first car in 1919. A big-scale munitionsmaker in World War 1, he converted from shells to cars, soon became the No. 2 automaker (after Renault) in the world's No. 2 automaking nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Goddess | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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