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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closed Season. In Dayton, police wrote a note of reminder: "Sacksteder's restaurant will, hereafter, have a man on duty all night to act as janitor and night watchman; his name is Bill Amos; please don't shoot Amos."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

"I don't think it's right," says Brigman who obviously fels he has many years of valuable research still in him. The professor objects to the blanket rule that has been the policy of the Corporation since Lowell. For the Corporation, this is just a practical financial measure that...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Old Scholars Never Fade; Scientists Go Away | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

A third, less happy, opinion of retirement is voiced by Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor, Emeritus. "You'll hear many different views on retirement," he says, "I don't like it." The physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1946, has been restless since his retirement because he has...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Old Scholars Never Fade; Scientists Go Away | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

At first he was not worried, for he was no novice to the game, and he knew that what you don't know forty-eight hours before the exam you have not got time to learn. But after twenty minutes of almost severely reduced concentration he knew that somewhere, something...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: The Silent Generation | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

In a landscape swarming with Austrian soldiers and two-faced informers, handsome Angelo performs one brilliant, noble deed after another, soon wins himself a cheering public. Even before his stature has become "heroic," his bosses maneuver a neat fix: Angelo must be killed and enshrined as a national martyr. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The World's a Stage | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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