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Word: childing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counting the big bites and the small nibbles of last year together, U.S. taxpayers paid $98.3 billion in federal, state and local taxes, the Commerce Department reported last week. That came to $568 for each man, woman and child in the country. Even so, outstanding federal, state and local government debts kept right on climbing, reached the dizzying total of $334 billion-$1,930 for each person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Bitten & Nibbled | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

DING DONG SCHOOL-"Here is a place where a child's mind is stretched, his imagination enchanted and his spirit made more generous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Question & Answers | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...cutoff age may be as high as 6½ (in Des Moines) or as low as 5 years 3 months (in Norwich, N.Y.), but thousands of children are bound to miss out by a few days or weeks. In 77% of U.S. public schools, the rules are inflexible; the child simply has to wait another year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Young for School? | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...daringly managed to catch it. chain the injured animal to a lamppost. The crowd closed in, jeering and taunting. Someone tried to shorten its chain, instead freed the maddened elephant, which this time charged the tormenting crowd, stomping with legs like tree trunks, flailing, smashing. A woman and child fell under its feet. The fleeing mob trampled eleven more people to death and injured 316 before the elephant was brought down by police bullets, crushing a car as he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Elephants of Perahera | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Last Train from Gun Hill. Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn fight it out in a western shot full of sociology, child psychology and Greek tragedy, while Caroline Jones makes the best of it all as the funny, freaky heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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