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Word: furthered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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< The Senate by voice vote gave the Tennessee Valley Authority permission to issue and sell up to $750 million worth of bonds to help finance its power system. The Administration had requested authority for the Budget Bureau to approve the sales, but Congress reserved that authority for itself. It also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Jangled Nerves | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

By week's end, Hébert's committee, satisfied so far that the uses of retired officers' influence had not gone beyond proper bounds, put off further hearings on the subject till another time. Said Hébert: "Some people have said this committee will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Avoiding Temptation | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Vague Enigma. The Soviet Union in its vague and enigmatic way was already trying to prove that an ultimatum is not an ultimatum. Spokesmen, ranging from Nikita Khrushchev ("I desist from attacking and welcome you," he told seven junketing U.S. Governors) to touring Frol Kozlov ("Is a proposal to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Holiday's End | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Though hindered by a further directorial failing on the part of Mr. Hanson, an inability or unwillingness to eliminate exaggerated poses and gestures, the actors were generally only slightly less than adequate. Frederick Blais as the father, and head of the Stanhope family, suffered most from this failing and played...

Author: By John Kasdan, | Title: 'Alison's House' at Tufts | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

As successful as most of the program was, it could only serve as a bare introduction to two important modern poets. But hopefully, it might have sent at least a few to Lamont for a further look at what they have to offer.

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Pulitzer Prize Poets Kunitz, Wilbur Recite Own Works at Lowell Hall | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

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