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Word: bowlings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they entered their old colleges and once again moved into their old rooms, they found that many of the gate porters still recognized them. As of old, the scholars slept in their old Victorian mahogany beds, shaved in the morning at the same old jug and bowl. "It is still 100 yards to the nearest john," complained one ex-scholar. All over Oxford, middle-aged men showed off old haunts to their wives. Arkansas' Senator James Fulbright, awarded an Oxonian honorary degree, said nostalgically: "Nothing has changed-only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Best for the Fight | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Almost no one came to visit him except the scientists who ordered his instruments. "I enjoyed my work," says Kramer. "It was very quiet." For amusement he played roque, a croquet-like game that has been almost forgotten. When he could no longer find roque players, he learned to bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Craftsman | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...keyboard punching machines at half the salary Linotype or Intertype compositors get, use one compositor to supervise as many as five tape-fed typesetting machines. The Miami Herald uses its own TTS circuits to cover local stories, e.g., the Herald punches tape in the press box at the Orange Bowl Stadium, feeds it directly into typesetting machines at the plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The TTS Revolution | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Pattern for Progress. It is along the Gulf Coast, where Texas has had its greatest industrial growth, that the state has its major water problem. To the east of Corpus Christi are flooding rivers, and to the west, drought has brought a "little dust bowl." The Bureau recommends a vast $1.1 billion project to build reservoirs along the eastern rivers and channel their flow into a "trans-basin water supply canal," which would swing in a broad arc parallel to the coast and would irrigate 1,000,000 acres of dust-dry farmland. Estimated costs: $370 million for the reservoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Water for Texas | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...show. By poking into old monasteries and crumbling castles, Art Lover Caturla had found eight that were entirely unknown to the outside world. There was a child Jesus sitting with a crown of thorns in his lap, a warmly devout Santa Eufemia, and The Holy Family clustered around a bowl of fruit. Among other outstanding works in the show: a solemn Santa Lucia and a prayerful, intent Fray Geronimo Perez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: King of Painters | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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