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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above its still mysterious floor, the ocean is not homogeneous but is a vast, intricate structure of separate and distinct layers, each with its own character and individuality. In some places the layers curl up and mix; in other places they do not. Through the layers mighty rivers stream on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ocean Frontier | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

After she has studied at the School of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, her superiors send her to the Belgian Congo as a nurse, where she is assigned to work with a character called Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch), who is described with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

OREGON JOURNAL : The President should be allowed to choose his administrative assistants unless his candidate has such deep and fundamental defects of character and ability that his unfitness for any Government service can be demonstrated. If Strauss has such defects, Congress has been a long time in finding it out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Press Reaction | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

How can they be recognized? In a joint study, Professors Getzels and Philip W. Jackson traced the traits of "creative" high school students by comparing their likes and dislikes with those of "high-IQ" students. The creative valued humor first; their opposite numbers ranked "character" first and humor last. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Digging the Divergent | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Among the Renaissance characteristics are balance and symmetry, which Romeo and Juliet has in superabundance. An early member of the canon and only the author's second attempt at tragedy, the play is at times literarily self-conscious and structurally too obvious in its symmetrical balance. Every idea has its...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Romeo and Juliet | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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