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Word: continente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The big bull market, which showed signs of faltering early last week, bounded back at week's end, and pushed the Dow-Jones industrial average up to another alltime high of 394.94, a solid 4.86 points above the week before. Among the leaders were Douglas Aircraft, up 5⅛...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Comeback for Steel | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

Jointly, Canada and the U.S. decided this fall to go ahead with a Distant Early Warning ("Dew") radar line along the continent's Arctic edge, some 1,800 miles north of Chicago, far enough away to give the U.S. three hours' warning. But the mid-Canada line will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Supersonic Shield | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

Australia is a large island-continent with a small population of 8,750,000, all of whom seem to become rabid tennis fans as soon as they can hold a racket. Last week Australia's tennis bugs were having nightmares. Reason: their star player and main hope for keeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis Down Under | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

I would respectfully like to remind Mr. Owen J. Stubbs [TIME Letters, Nov. 15] that ... in Africa, the ancestors of the "backward and unambitious race" were manufacturing iron while their contemporaries in Europe still were dabbling with bronze . . . and that if Africa is a dark continent, it was the "Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

Anti-Japanese feeling dies hard in Australia. Last week, a decade after Tojo's men were driven out of islands adjacent to the southern continent, Australians were excited anew about the "Yellow Peril." Into Rabaul Harbor came a Japanese pearling ship, its crew battened below decks, its captain a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Bad Word | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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