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Word: discoverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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President-elect Kubitschek is not the first to discover how well Bob Chapin's charts and maps can clarify a subject, from geography or medicine to economics or government. Among the reprint requests that come to my office each month, many ask permission to use TIME'S charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

The meeting will attempt to discover "how to make our cities nice to look at and a joy to live in," Mary Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, assistant professor of City Planning, said yesterday. "Some of our American cities are pretty horrid," she observed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners to Investigate 'Aesthetic Urban Design' | 1/13/1956 | See Source »

Adams drives his help as hard as he drives himself. One time he and his then assistant, Charles F. Willis Jr., walked out of Adams' office to discover that two of his four stenographers had obviously been weeping. Startled, Adams beat a hasty retreat. "What are they crying about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: O.K., S.A. | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

He was obviously quite flattered by the attention India was getting, and kept referring to it. At Nilambur he said: "We are one of the great nations of the world. Why did all these people* come here? Because they all want to discover how we Indians manage to work peacefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Friends & Reactionaries | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

A FEW years ago a student appeared at Memorial Hall on fall registration day to enroll in Harvard. Unable to find his folder, officials referred him to the Admissions Office. It took less than a minute there to discover that the would-be freshman had never even applied for admission...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Admissions: What Kind of Wheat to Winnow | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

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