Search Details

Word: continente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

The most influential magazine on the Continent today is a sleekly handsome French monthly. Its name: Réaltiés. Although only ten years old, Réaltiés has built the biggest subscription circulation (191,500) of any magazine in France. In sharp contrast to many French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Success Without Strings | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

These are reports on two important literary safaris into the grimly awakening Dark Continent. Novelist Stuart Cloete (rhymes with booty), a Boer South African with several excellent books to his name,* started out in Cape Town and crossed the Equator eight times in one year. U.S. Journalist John Gunther, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Is there a solution to the South African dilemma? Gunther saw none, but he found hope elsewhere on the troubled continent-notably in British West Africa, where the hustling rival colonies of Gold Coast and Nigeria are driving hard toward independence. In Accra, the Gold Coast capital, he attended a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

After one splendiferous night last week, about as many living, breathing citizens remained unaware of Marine Captain Richard S. McCutchen, 28-the first man to dare "The $64,000 Question"-as there are whooping cranes left on the North American continent.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED SERVICES: Semper Chow | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

Americans have listened eagerly to the many-voiced cry of their continent. Seashore, mountains, valleys and plains have spoken and been heard. But the voice of the desert has been largely ignored. To the Hebrews it spoke of the one true God, to the Arabs of the stars and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Curious World | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | Next