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Word: europeanization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camp Kilmer, where a few hundred refugees still await help from eager welfare agencies, U.S. Army detachments prepared new shelter and service facilities for the big rush. In the hurly-burly of processing, the bureaucracy managed to remember that Dec. 6 was St. Nicholas Day. In many European countries, St. Nicholas leaves presents in the newly polished shoes of the good children, switches and pieces of coal for the naughty ones. For the 51 children still awaiting settlement at Kilmer, there were toys, dolls and candy. No such observance had been permitted Hungarian children since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Safe Haven | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...Born in Paris of American parents, he studied interior decoration in New York, left to accept a minor post with the U.S. embassy in Berlin in 1916. At the Versailles conference, he served as aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, later became executive secretary of the European Relief Council and traveled around ravaged Europe with Relief Chief Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Dream Fulfilled | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...present tensions between Britain and the U.S.? Replied she: "I don't find between women any breach to be healed." On Washington: "Much like Paris, not too different from Vienna." On Manhattan's lack of "dream department stores": "The shops there are so much more like European shops than I had expected. They are cozy and untidy, and even deal in antiques." Having heard that U.S. life was a mad merry-go-round, Lady Caccia was agreeably surprised: "I don't find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Mission to Washington. Although young Rossby was fascinated by the new meteorology, he did not stay put in Bergen. Like many European students, he wandered from university to university, stopping for a year at Leipzig, then returning to Stockholm. After winning his licentiate (graduate degree) in theoretical physics, he worked for a while for the Swedish weather bureau, where he decided "the prospects looked pretty bleak." Rescue came in 1926 from the Sweden-American Foundation, which gave him a fellowship to go to the U.S. His mission: to sell the Bjerknes doctrine to U.S. meteorology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man's Milieu | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...first ancestor of Hamlet was "a serious play of modern life" by Allan Davis '07 entitled The Promised Land. Produced on December 15, 1908, it dealt with the efforts of a Jewish European diplomat to lead his co-religionists back to Palestine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Becomes 100 Productions Old | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

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