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Word: hourse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smarter than the cops, craftier than the crooks, too quick to be caught and domesticated by the classiest doll, TV's private detective runs second to only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with old scandals and new specials, the Cowpoke is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Except for physical sciences, headed by Nuclear Physicist Gustav Hertz, almost every Leipzig department has been destroyed academically. Compulsory courses (Marxism, Russian) help to keep a student in school as long as 13 hours a day. Homework is often an evening spent proselytizing citizens about Marxism. "Vacation" is an assignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Kill a University | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

¶Within hours of the Explorer VII firing, and not far away, a B-47 bomber rose seven miles above the Atlantic. It hovered off the Florida coast until the orbiting Explorer VI was passing overhead; then the three-man crew launched a two-stage, solid-fuel Bold Orion missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hat Trick | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Change in the Morning. In a way that scientists still do not fully comprehend, the pigment changes its chemical structure when red light hits it. As long as the red light lasts, the new structure persists. When the light dies, the pigment begins slowly to change back to its original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Control of Growth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

To check their findings, Beltsville's men dosed plants with red light at all hours of the night. Fooling plants into believing the nights were longer or shorter than they really were seasonally, the scientists were able to make plants bloom months early or late. They have so efficiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Control of Growth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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