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Word: automaticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago Hassi Messaoud was simply an abandoned water hole, a navigational reference point for voyagers across the vast sea of sand and stone that the Romans called leonum arida nutrix- the arid nurse of lions. Today it has 5,000 inhabitants, sprawls over nearly 60 square miles of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Visionary | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

On this low level of debate, a vote was taken. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had his automatic Tory majority and won by a vote of 317 to 254. It was an election year, and Macmillan was going to neither scuttle Lennox-Boyd nor admit to any failure.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shame the Devlin | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Khrushchev around the exhibition again for a look at displays he had missed that morning. Khrushchev smilingly scoffed at an electronic household "console" that is supposed to enable housewives of tomorrow to run their appliances through remote control. A model pressed a button and a dishwasher scooted out of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Better to See Once | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Hard-pressed U.S. railroads figure their featherbedding bill at $500 million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEATHERBEDDING: Make-Work Imperils Economic Growth | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Died. Albert Fisk, 68, pioneer aeronautical engineer who developed the Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s automatic pilot and other flight instruments, gyrocompasses, high-intensity searchlights and ship stabilizers during the course of research that spanned two world wars; of a heart attack; in Tucson, Ariz.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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