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Word: inners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feet are displayed right on the reading table, close to your nose, if you happen to be sitting opposite the comfort-seeker, and I can mention a few other habits and uses or rather abuses which students should have been taught long ago, if they haven't the inner breeding, to avoid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

Currently, readers have their choice of two. One is an exuberant feature story of the 1949 Tibetan holiday of Lowell Thomas and Lowell Jr.; the other is a sharp-eyed account of a junket through Inner Mongolia, taken in 1945 by Orientalist Schuyler Cammann of the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelers In High Asia | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Author Cammann was sent to a U.S. meteorological outpost in Inner Mongolia toward the end of the war. During the weeks of his stay, he took short trips in all directions from his base near a town called Shanpa to the tents and temples of the Mongols. Since he thinks they are a vanishing people, Cammann looks close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelers In High Asia | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...heart, squeeze it until animal is dead), and admires the tricks which Mongol farmers play on their reluctant soil to make it yield. Yet in a land where there is barely enough to eat, an undernourished girl may have silver rings in her ears. Cammann condenses his impressions of Inner Mongolia into a phrase: "Wealth in squalor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelers In High Asia | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Lippold was moved to give an earnest explanation of his brainchild: "The center of this construction is actually designed around a sphere. The 'transparency' of the sphere gives opportunity to visualize such inner tensions as activate all aspects of earthly life: personal, social and international. Out of these inner relationships, the bursting of stem and branches from this 'World-Seed' resolved the whole conception into a treelike form, suggesting continuing growth. Thus, this piece is really a 'World-Tree,' its four branches reaching to the four main points of the compass, its trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whatnot at Harvard | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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