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Word: byway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dedication for the bridge was scheduled for yesterday, but was postponed because of rain. Workmen put up the sign pictured above to discourage motorists from using the byway until it was officially opened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Bridge Ready at Last | 1/25/1951 | See Source »

Nobody who cherished survival doubted the deep wisdom of exploring every U.N. byway or even, if there were the slightest chance that it would do any good, of discussing the subject with Stalin (the President denied that he was planning a direct approach to the Russians). But since the principle of the hydrogen bomb was also known to the Russians, temporizing was risky and might be fatal. The simple fact, unpleasant though it might be, was that if the Russians are likely to build an H-bomb, the U.S. will have to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Loaded Question | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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