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Word: eternall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Rebel. No such comment could be made about Fifteen. Fifteen is the eternal sophomore, both wise and foolish at once. He digs at his scalp, gouges pimples, toys maddeningly with the silverware at meals. His voice is often inaudible, and he seems | so frugal with his energies that parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That Normal Problem Child | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

NBC's Alcoa Hour made history by discovering a new way of treating the classic TV western story-Writer Alvin Sapinsley put it in blank verse. Even more surprising: it worked. Franchot Tone, Lee Grant and Christopher Plummer played the three tragic figures who end as corpses on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

In a less concrete vein, he might order all babies born on Sundays to be named Nikita. He could try making polygamy legal for himself--thus memorializing his family name as well. Less praiseworthy, but more effective would be an eternal life potion, and, of course, liquidation of all possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secret of Immortality | 3/21/1956 | See Source »

¶ "All of human history as described in the Bible may be summarized in one phrase: God is in search of man. Faith in God is a response to God's question . . . When Adam and Eve hid from His presence, the Lord called : Where art thou . . . Religion consists of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Jew & Sod | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Since 1918, when the Soviets repudiated $75 million worth of czarist gold bonds sold to Americans, the Romanov two-headed eagles have theoretically been worthless. Yet hope springs eternal, and several thousand bonds are annually traded on the American Stock Exchange, where they move up and down according to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Promise Worth 2 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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