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Word: busiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service but was fired by the Nazis (1939) and turned to mining (basalt). After World War II he pitched into Christian Democratic politics, was soon on the party's three-man executive board, the recognized leader of its strong Catholic right wing, and one of Adenauer's busiest campaign speakers. (Wurmeling, his wife recalls, campaigned so hard that "he used to give speeches in his sleep.") After the last election. Adenauer repaid the debt by creating the Ministry for Family Affairs and commissioning Franz-Josef Wurmeling to try to promote for Germany's morals the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Defender of the Family | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was one of the busiest mathematical dons Oxford had ever known, but he was much too cranky to want to be well known. Letters addressed to him under his pen name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Stone Days | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

This week Truth Salesman David Elton Trueblood, 53, got the biggest selling job of his life. He was appointed chief of Religious Policy for the U.S. Information Agency. As such, he will be in charge of one of the busiest, farthest-flung and least-known religious enterprises in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Truth Salesman | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...went with him to lectures, and by using his hand as a sort of typewriter -a knuckle for one letter, a fingertip for another-they read him everything he could not find in Braille. Richard not only took his full load of courses, he also became one of the busiest men in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: It Wasn't Difficult | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...different members of the student body entered and left the building over 5,000 times a day, the number of books in use soared. On the busiest day, Jan. 16, a total of 3,405 books, exclusive of the thousands in open stacks, were signed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Outdoes Circulation Mark | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

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