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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the meantime, De Groot is filling out his concert season with old standbys, e.g., the Brahms version of Bach's Violin Chaconne, which he played last week to critical huzzahs on the Dutch radio. He is also rearranging pieces by Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, Rachmaninoff. And if the day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With the Left Hand | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

The cost to Kao is about $700 a year. "This is really very little," he says. "In fact, it cost me nothing. I teach a course at U.C.L.A. one night a week, and my income from that is enough to cover the boy's education." Kao finds it strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Goal Is Good | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

The great birds (wingspan: about 7 ft.) go through such distressingly gooney antics that Navymen long ago dubbed them gooney birds. Among other things, they need large, clear areas to take off and land, and they find airports ideal. The friendly gooney birds lay their big eggs on or near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man v. Bird | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Cloud on the horizon, no bigger than a boatswain's hand, as the sun rises on a new era in underwater communication: if radio waves can penetrate water to communicate with submarines, they may eventually be usable with different instrumentation for detection of submarines, which are now immune from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves Under the Sea | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

The Beltsville substance is so new to chemists that it has not yet been analyzed or even named. But it is a major discovery in basic knowledge, may lead to bigger crops grown faster, and to control over harvesting times. "It's as if we had been hitting a...

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

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