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Word: caped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wave radiation from the sea and from it shows whether the water is warm or cold. The gadget has been used successfully to track the inner edge of the Gulf Stream, distinguishing it from colder inshore water all the way from Florida up to George's Bank, off Cape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ocean Thermometer | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Heaton Nicholls' plan is for a federal South Africa, split int01) a Boer Republic in Transvaal, Orange Free State and part of Cape Province, 2) a British dominion in Natal and the rest of the Cape. Fire-eating veterans of the anti-Malan Torch Commando back Nicholls to the hilt, but the leaders of the Opposition United Party call his scheme "preposterous," and declare that a British attempt at secession might risk a second Boer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Cry of Secession | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...Wednesday and Thursday of last week, the CRIMSON ran an ad offering a position to a married couple as stewards at a yacht club on Cape Cod for the summer. Because the position seemed inviting and because I thought my husband and I were capable of filling it, I called the number listed in the advertisement to ask for an interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT | 5/5/1953 | See Source »

...fastidious snake god refuses to eat him because Frut has been touched by human hands. Instead, he tells Frut the way to the Blue Cape, a lizard Utopia where tablelanders and creekers live together in sweet reasonableness. After a harrowing journey across sun-baked flatlands, Frut gets to the classless paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lizard in Limbo | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Scoffing Educators. Frut finds that gods, as well as classes, have been abolished. Just unnecessary nonsense, Blue Cape's educators explain. Doesn't any Blue Caper ever kill another? Frut asks. Why should he? ask the educators. Is it reasonable for a lizard to kill a fellow lizard? Born reasonable, Blue Capers pool their supplies and their work, rarely bother much with personal names since any Blue Caper is by nature and desire much like any other Blue Caper. When Frut begins shuffling into his mating dance for a female Blue Caper, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lizard in Limbo | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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