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Word: bowsing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Informed Indians believe that after Tibet, the Chinese have their eyes on the mountainous buffer state of Bhutan, a poor but contented nation, without electricity, hotels or shops, which gets a healthy subsidy from India. The only direct mule road from India to Bhutan passes through part of Tibet, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: A Promise of Trouble | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Why not go along with him and take away the automatic dishwashers and potato peelers, along with, of course, nuclear weapons, missiles and other useless innovations? He should be very pleased to have all the men he wants for parades, and their bows and arrows or muskets slung over their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Commander Behrens said a mouthful. Built by Electric Boat in Groton, Conn., with a Westinghouse Electric Corp. nuclear engine, the Skipjack is the consummation of a long program to give the U.S. its first true submersible designed primarily for underwater work. Conventional diesel-electric submarines spend most of their time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whale of a Boat | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

In four short months Guinea has apparently learned that independence is a relative thing. It will not be easy for Africa to be completely itself, for no other continent has been so swept by foreign influence. Islam stretches not only across its top, but deep into the south-as far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUINEA: Vive I' lndependance! | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Last Remnant. The Xetás are a dying people. Not more than 250 of them now survive. They live in bands of 15 to 25, moving camp every few days. They have no agriculture, know no metal, make no pottery. They sleep on the ground instead of in hammocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Living Stone Age | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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