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Word: dumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protest Hollywood's attempt to portray itself as merely a reproduction of "Main Street anywhere." This, if nothing else, should incur the mass uprising of every Main Street everywhere to press charges of slander against the most powerful nest of veneer-covered, mental-garbage-disposal-dump ever invented by mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...gave them strength. When Boss Perez tried to quiet him with a few Chinese visas or some campaign donations, Magsaysay tossed them back at him. When politicians kept him from buying Quonset huts he needed as schoolhouses for Zambales, he gathered some of his wartime guerrillas, raided a surplus dump and made off with 140 huts. Later he paid for them-50 centavos (25?) apiece, the price he figured the profiteer who owned them had paid in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Cleanup Man | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...second floor," admitted an investigating Diet member, "but I got the impression that they were not all bad girls." He did feel, he added, that "due to international repercussions, something should be done." So did most everyone else. The trouble was-what? Nice as it might be to dump Bathmaster Konomi in hot water, it would still be a pity to tear down his beautiful bath. At week's end, far away from the mountains and the open sea, it was still going strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tempest in a Tub | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...Wisconsin graduate who once headed a Buddhist college in Ceylon, later became a free-lance lecturer, and three years ago founded the Foundation for Integrated Education. The purpose of the foundation is to go deeper than any system of "general education." It is not enough, says Kunz, to dump a few facts from one field into another; it is far more important to go after the basic concepts behind the facts. As it is, most specialists don't even know what the score is, outside their own fields. Biologists are still apt to think in terms of 19 Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Are Nature's Laws? | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...terribly hot, and we worked half-naked beside the men. The girls did all kinds of work like drilling and loading. Another girl and I worked with two men pushing cars on a 25-yard slip to the dump. In eight hours we pushed around 900 cars. We lived in a house near the mine, six girls to a room. The men couldn't come to our house but the girls could go to the men's dormitory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Out of the Mines | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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