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Word: discoverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In fourteen hundred ninety-two, as any schoolboy knows, Columbus sailed the ocean blue to discover a passage to India. But that is not the way the story goes in Christophe Colomb, the 25-year-old opera by Darius Milhaud, with a text by French Poet Paul Claudel. In Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Columbus Mystery | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Cuckolds Grow Troublesome. "Bucks," as Author Wilson insists on calling Buckingham, was the more striking figure of the two. Born to the purple, he was so handsome, witty and intelligent that Louis XIV was maliciously pleased to describe him as "almost,the only English gentleman he had seen." Buckingham could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bucks & Rocks | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

". . . You will not seek a near but a distant objective and you will not be satisfied with what you have done. All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern which from his separate approach every true scholar is striving to descry...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The Society of Fellows: II | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

At the final service, husbands and wives joined hands and solemnly reaffirmed their marriage vows. When the silence was over, and the couples who had been neighbors for days could speak to each other at last, there was little doubt that the three-day regimen had helped to change some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Family Retreat | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Mireille is left to soak in the tub for 48 hours, then driven to a Paris suburb and dumped into a pond. A bit later, when Ravinel returns to discover his wife's "suicide." her body has disappeared.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Triangle | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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