Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Werner (Tammany Hall) and other researchers. The story begins in May 1789, just a few weeks after the U.S. Constitution took effect, when New York City's Society of Tammany adopted its own constitution as a superpatriotic club for 100%-pure Americans. For its patron, the society chose a man whose American credentials could not be questioned: Tammany, sachem (pronounced say-chem) of the Lenni-Lenape (Delaware Indians), from whom legends glowed like beams from an August moon. Tammany (it was said) invented the canoe, discovered corn, beans, crabapples and tobacco (for use in destroying fleas). His most heroic...
...chose the way of politics-but politics with the true flavor of frontier democracy...
...Kaffeeklatsch." Mrs. Landy said she quit the party about eight years ago, but still misses her comrades. Why. then, did she leave them? Said she: "He [Eugene] gave me an ultimatum-to quit or he would leave home; to choose between him and the party." Then she added: "I chose him." Which was more than the U.S. Navy could...
Twenty third-place winners busily chose the $100 worth of golf clubs, cameras, electric fans or half a dozen other items. Jay Y. Tipton of Salt Lake City wrote: "It isn't easy to choose . . . I've been toying with the idea of asking for $100 worth of Oldsmobiles, or some of I. W. Harper's liquid assets; there are so many products and services in TIME'S advertising pages." In Atlanta, Jack F. Glenn waited for his wife to come back to town...
...overall with only a 27-ft. beam, will cost about $53 million complete; it is slightly leaner, longer and more expensive than the Nautilus, the world's first atomic-powered submarine (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). The drastic differences are inside: to further nuclear development, the Navy deliberately chose two distinct, competitive types of atomic reactors to power steam turbines aboard the two vessels. Unlike the water-cooled thermal reactor on the Nautilus, the Seawolf's high-speed reactor will be cooled by liquid sodium, will create more heat and energy and burn more nuclear fuel...