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Word: coversation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After several months of careful explorations, six of the world's leading oil-exporting countries finally struck money last week in Geneva. They reached agreement with 16 of the largest oil companies to collect about 8.5% in additional taxes and royalties on petroleum, thus making up for their loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: New Reserves of Green | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

"Brazil, where the nuts come from," said Charley's aunt, thus inadvertently assessing the extent of nearly everyone's knowledge of a country that covers 6% of the earth's land surface. But Brazil, especially Amazonia, is the last old-fashioned Eldorado left, a trove of unexploited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Eat Man | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

Last summer Neurobiologist Nicholas Seeds of the University of Colorado Medical Center reported that he had not only been able to reassemble brain cells from mice, but that the reconstructed tissue continued to develop in a normal way. Now, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Seeds and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brains in a Test Tube | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

The film deals with much more provocative material than it possibly can cover in an hour and a half. The depression, socialist labor movements, a consumer oriented society, Chaplin's life, Paulette Goddarde--Modern Times covers all this ground, but as a newsreel might, quickly, and superficially. Certain images remain...

Author: By Lawrence Bergreen, | Title: Chaplin's Times | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

33. The Platters' first hit was written by their manager, whose name is also a material used in book covers, not unlike leatherette. Name the song and its cddly monickered author. (2)

Author: By Charlie Allen, | Title: The Crimson Supplement | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

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