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Word: disposall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bert Tallamy, 54, a civil engineer who spends his winter weekends snowshoeing in the mountains near his West Sand Lake, N.Y. home, has been building public projects ever since he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1925. He got his first job building sewers and water mains in Buffalo, soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Highway Man | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Wakley was a disenchanted physician who launched the Lancet in 1823 as a vehicle to attack the abuses rampant in 19th century medicine. His magazine tilted at the high-collared sacred cows of Harley Street, crusaded for better sewage disposal, better operative technique, more humane treatment of the insane. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plain English Diction | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

Bushel by bushel, bale by bale, the U.S. has succeeded in cutting down its embarrassing surplus of farm products by $2.9 billion since 1954 (still leaving more than $8 billion), the White House reported last week to Congress. Of that amount, $1.2 billion in surplus food, tobacco and cotton was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Cutting the Surplus | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

The ashes are stirred by Jean Delfau, a wealthy set designer who has come from Paris to help Papa Noris put a little theatrical glamour into his mayoralty campaign. Tamara promptly puts her overripe charms at Jean's disposal, and Hélène just as promptly decides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Set | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

In the development of the universe, man has finally evolved as the only being capable of rational thought. Therefore, Weisskopf claimed, man is responsible for the state of the world, and since science has been mainly responsible for the physical potentialities now at man's disposal, he must now, more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientist Says Theory Needs Added Stress | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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