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Word: browsings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the wall of the public registrar's office in the village of Campogalliano (5½ miles off the main road from Modena to Bologna), hangs a large portrait of Garibaldi. From under beetling brows, the old revolutionary soldier looks down on two municipal workers: Ostilio Iotti, 26, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Love in the Town Hall? | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

Always the Normal. Thenceforth, Magician Rinn fervently practiced what he and most of his fellow magicians insistently preached: that no "spirit manifestation" existed that they could not duplicate by plain trickery. They showed how clammy "spirit hands" (that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Avocation in Ectopiffle | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Since 1847, white kids and excessive drinking of green tea have gone out of fad, but snobs are in again, and so is writing about them. The latest snobographer to revive the discussion is Russell Lynes, an editor of Harper's who set himself up in a magazine article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Social Science | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

For a fortnight the members of the special Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee had sat with furrowed brows, listening intently to eight different proposals for taking apart and reassembling the world. By last week their files were stacked with thick mimeographed statements and their heads whirled from the barrage of testimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: World Architects | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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