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Word: existance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drink of vodka. Then they went and got their tools again and started marking out their claims to private property." A village committee soon ironed out the boundary disputes, and by the time Gomulka got around to acknowledging the end of forced collectivization, Victoria had ceased to exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Farmer Goes West | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...said in your May 20 story "New Leonardo?" that "in the U.S. only two purported Leonardos exist, both of doubtful authenticity." I am not qualified to pass judgment on them, but since 1797 we have had in our family what we are confident is an original Mona Lisa. We do not believe it is "purported," although some people may. We have adequate proof by an outstanding art critic and others that it is by the hand of Leonardo. It is known as the "Vernon Leonardo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...government closed the law school and the department of education. It imprisoned four professors, barred three more from teaching, in 1951 sent popular Father Antony Slomkowski, then rector, to jail. "We were," says Rector Rechowicz, "a ghetto, an isolated despised ghetto that was allowed not to live but to exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Irony in Poland | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Telltale Band. Most important was proof that organic (carbon-hydrogen) compounds probably exist on Mars. Dr. William Sinton of the Smithsonian Institution started with the fact that compounds containing carbon, when joined to hydrogen, absorb infra-red radiation with a wave length of 3.46 microns. His first step was to look for this absorption band in infra-red light reflected from dry leaves, lichens and mosses, which are made almost entirely of carbon-hydrogen compounds. It showed up strongly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life on Mars? | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...second is more important. It argues that without a recurrent check in the from of grade sheets, there would be no impulse for students to do any work at all. They contend essentially, with Keppel, that though some faults may exist in the current system, student immaturity is the basic problem, and would not be removed by removing the present goals of their immature student...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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