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Word: baseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Ward compared scientific achievement to an iceberg: the Sputniks correspond to the ten per cent which is visible, but there is still a solid base comprising ninety per cent of their achievement which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stevenson Hits Papers' Lack Of Information | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...Milwaukee. (Top aide Ted Sorensen and brother Robert Kennedy† showed up.) While the conference accomplished little, it underscored the fact that Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Missouri's Stuart Symington are in the favor of Midwest politicians. Both are working hard to expand the Midwest political base and head off the unchallenged vote preference for Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Jack, the Front Runner | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...days before Pioneer IV's successful takeoff, the Air Force launched its first Discoverer satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Discoverer was the U.S.'s first attempt to put a satellite into polar orbit, which would make possible surveillance of the whole of the earth's surface. The booster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stuttering Discoverer | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

DAMASCUS, Syria, March 13--The Reds are converting Iraq into a base for operations in the Arab world, President Gamal Abdel Nasser warned a massive anti-communist rally today...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eisenhower Proposes $4 Billion Foreign Aid Budget to Congress; Macmillan Gains French Support | 3/14/1959 | See Source »

...student meeting. "The Russians were terribly active. One fellow constantly took notes on everything, even on rug factories." Then came Yugoslavia and a seminar on the unification of the student world. The Chinese were there in full force ("Their leader spoke perfect English learned on a U.S. air force base during the war"), and one of the Russian "student editors" who visited the United States recently was a member of the Soviet delegation. "This fellow boldly told the assembly that 'in Russia we feel a student is in the university to study, and not to govern'--which caused quite...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Around the World | 3/14/1959 | See Source »

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