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Word: clogged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris in the uneasy spring of 1936. Sitdowns close the factories, riots clog the streets, a Popular Front cabinet maneuvers for its life. To a Jules Remains or a Jean Paul Sartre this is the ideal setting for a lugubrious social novel. But not to Marcel Aymé. As a satirist by profession -and currently the best in France-Aymé gives 1936 France his usual deft, dry treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fools on the Brink | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

More hydrogen keeps appearing to replace that which condenses. Galaxies are never so thick that they clog the universe, for the addition of new hydrogen makes space "stretch" more & more. Adjacent galaxies move apart, and when they have moved enough, new galaxies form out of new hydrogen in the newly stretched space between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: According to Hoyle | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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