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Word: fragments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here," the mayor ordered the workmen, and in a few minutes they unearthed something that gleamed whiter than stone. It was a fragment of human bone. In "Bluebeard's castle" they had found what they were looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Inside the Castle | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Running from the sound of the exploding grenade, Private Tamura felt a fragment rip his shoulder and saw the gouged chunk of his own flesh lying on the ground. He picked it up, wiped it clean and popped it into his mouth. He was that hungry and, besides, "There could certainly be nothing wrong in eating my own flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Over the Brink | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Congratulations on the article. I have also thoroughly enjoyed your symbolic cover composition and recognized the "scroll fragment," having identified and translated this document myself in 1948. I admire the skill of Artist Bohrod in being able to apply the Habakkuk commentary (whose photographic plates were published in 1950), hack out a portion of it, crumple it and tint it in simulating a scroll fragment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...opalescent rose pinks, emerald greens and turquoise blues. It occurred in a small area about 15 degrees from the sun and lasted only about 15 minutes. It can be fully explained, but only in the language of a meteorologist. However, it can be said that it was only a fragment of a giant halo due to unusually small droplets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 22, 1957 | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...work is done in a long, light, white-paneled room filled with 20 trestled tables. There lie the scroll fragments, pressed flat and protected between plates of glass. Fragments are identified by labels bearing such symbols as 4 QM5, i.e., a fragment from Qumran Cave 4, under study by Milik, and belonging to the fifth plate in a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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