Search Details

Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Greater or Little. A leader with a taste for loud ties but moderate policies, Issa prodded the Italians into their promise of early independence. But then Haji Mohammed Hussein, an oldtime nationalist rabble-rouser whose oratory once made Somalis whip off their scarves in frenzy and fling them into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOMALIA: Birth Pangs | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Benny and Truman will show U.S. citizens where to go to study the history and philosophy of the U.S. presidency: the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. "I'm doing it for Jack Benny and nobody else," said Truman, explaining that last year Benny had got out his violin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Oceanographers have long considered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge about the most interesting single feature of the ocean bottom. According to the original theory of continental drift, which was presented by German Geologist Alfred Wegener in 1920, the ridge was made of material left behind when North and South America broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How Oceans Grew | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

As man begins to reach out beyond his own planet into outer space, scientists are being forced to grapple with the fact that they live in a plasma universe. Said M.I.T. Physicist William P. Allis: "It is as if a people had lived all their lives in the mountains and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fourth State of Matter | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

The plasma studies at Harvard and M.I.T. will be largely theoretical, but highly practical hardware is likely to grow out of them. The development of fusion power depends on better understanding of high-temperature plasmas. A plasma rocket engine expelling charged particles instead of hot gases may be the solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fourth State of Matter | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 215 | 216 | 217 | 218 | 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | Next