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Word: decipherable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The study of Latin offers two great rewards among others: in the first year the student learns to decipher dates on cornerstones, and in the seventh or eighth, if he is clever, he is able to read the Satyricon. The randy classic, which deals with a kind of conjugation untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gutter Odyssey | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

The most serious question: had there been an off-to-Buffalo shuffle with A.G.V.A. sick and relief funds? Member contributions are recorded only by number, not by name, so that only Bright and his staff can decipher who deserves what. In addition, a separate corporation called the A.G.V.A. Foundation, headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Blondie v. Blackie | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

The brainchild of the University of Chicage's Dr. Marcel Schein and financed by the National Science Foundation, the balloon rig is designed to catch cosmic ray particles while they are still streaking in from distant space at interstellar speed, unhampered by dense air. Even those that are single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Air's Outer Edge | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

This in turn inspired the more ingenious students to attempt to decipher the system, so only that part of the lesson they would be called upon to discuss had to be studied. Rivalry between students and tutors was keen, with victory in the long run falling equally to both sides...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: The Start of Harvard Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

An example of the challenge facing parents is Tigrett Industries' fast-selling Golden Sonic ($20), a 20-in. long spaceship that will stop, start or change direction at the command of a whistle; so intricate is its mechanism, which is activated by a sound-sensitive diaphragm, that it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Challenge for Parents | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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