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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark context of Kenya's bushfire "emergency," this was a mere border skirmish. But Simba, a wily, war-scarred veteran with at least one shattered police post to his credit, chose to lead the raid in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Death of the Lion | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

India's government chose Chandigarh in 1950 as the site for a new Punjab capital, and put aside 167 million rupees (about $35 million) for the project. To lay it out, they chose one of the world's best-known city planners: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, France's aging (65) stormy petrel of architecture. For the man who has spent his career energetically condemning the world's cities, it was the chance of a lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: City on the Plain | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...athletic man, Bellows chose the U.S. as his subject and never traveled outside its borders. He covered everything from the brittle polo-playing society of New Jersey to the whirling horror of a dance in a madhouse and the wise-eyed dead-end kids swarming the dirty banks of Manhattan's East River. He was one of the most imaginative artists of his time, and also one of the most versatile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Public Favorites (27& 28) | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Liberation. In San Antonio, an anonymous couple broke into the city pound, chose two stray dogs as pets, set free more than 200 others, fled, evading pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

These are the men who chose the new President: the five Fellows and the Treasurer of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Corporation: Six Professional Men Chose Head | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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