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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The U.S. Air Force popped a promotion list into the senatorial hopper, then waited for the what-for. On the roster: drawling Cinemactor and Reserve Colonel James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, once refused promotion to brigadier general two years ago (TIME, Sept. 2, 1957) after Maine's Senator Margaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Mystery Man Guterma, 43, claims to have been born in Irkutsk, Siberia, though he speaks like a native New Yorker. His story is that he went to the Philippines in 1938 by way of China, managed to escape a World War II Japanese concentration camp. The war over, Guterma flowered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Alexander the Great | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

As great a contribution to a sound program, however, has been the recognition that its organization must be inter-departmental and preferably House-oriented. The failure of the old non-honors program may in large part be attributed to its attempt to channel back into the department students who had...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Honors Tutorial | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

For Russian students who escape the frequent opportunities to flunk, the ten-year school can be an efficient factory of learning. Children start when they are seven, go through only four years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Education Race | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

The Trap (Paramount) is something a prudent moviegoer will not want to get caught in. It tells the unlikely story of an underworld overlord (Lee J. Cobb) wanted by the federal police, who takes over a small town in southern California, uses it as a base from which to stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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