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Word: confidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At a moment when Brazil's two major parties were still floundering hopelessly in attempts to find candidates of their own, Adhemar, never noted for his humility, turned his ebullient cockiness to good account. He showed off his crowd-drawing prowess at close range, played the self-confident candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Wonderful People | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

The physicists of those days believed that the universe was built foursquare on Newton's Laws of Motion. Their laboratories were stiff with reassuring certainties. Matter was matter, they stated dogmatically. It could, of course, be used in combustion to release energy, but matter itself could not be turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Half-Century: STEEP CURVE TO LEVEL FOUR | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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