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Word: answer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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From neither side came an answer. The bodies sat at the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Indignity & Peril | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...with 114). And since taking office nine months ago, California's able, amiable Governor Edmund G. Brown has been wooed like a Spanish infanta for those votes. Every major candidate has gone West to learn "Pat" Brown's intentions, and Brown has parried them all with the answer that he will lead California's delegation to the convention as a favorite son (not to be confused with an all-out presidential candidate) and see what happens. Last week, urged by his advisers to proclaim that he is not a "serious" presidential candidate, Governor Brown took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Now, Brown? | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...only a year ago that the confident Indians breezed into Cambridge expecting to stay undefeated in Ivy play, only to limp away following the League's upset of the year. The Crimson, beset by early season quarterbacking problems, had found its answer in Charlie Ravenel, who led the varsity to its moment of glory...

Author: By T. M. Rothencott, | Title: Varsity Given 6-Point Edge Over Dartmouth In Key Ivy League Contest for Both Squads | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

...show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Last week millions of televiewers found out the answer: no, because there is nothing to spoil. His amiable, muscular and vacant manner scarcely intruded on some predictably competent guests-Lisa Kirk (topnotch nightclub numbers), Sammy Davis Jr. (dervish dances and impersonations), Comedian Mort Sahl (sick, sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hard Way to Tell a Joke | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Sociologist Jack Randolph Conrad of Southwestern at Memphis (enrollment: 651) was asked to help suggest the best possible courses for the Scientific Age. His answer: look to the Stone Age. The most basic course, he said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival technology." Items: "How to make acorn meal, how to make simple traps, how to tan leather, how to make simple tools and weapons from stone, how to smelt ore, how to find safe drinking water, how to recognize poisonous plants, how to keep an infant alive without milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Basic Science | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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