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Word: intervale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five-Ring Circus. The training routine has both the exhausting overtones of a six-day bike race and the bewildering versatility of a five-ring circus. The day starts with 6 a.m. reveille. At 8, the candidates for the team put in more than an hour of riding, sharing six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Pentathletes | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

The split-second technicians have taken over an old slang word to describe their work. In the language of the laboratory, a shake is now a precise interval, meaning one hundred-millionth of a second.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Shake | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

What should the teacher try to do about it? I suggest that there is what might be called an "art of decision"--an act of commitment following an interval of non-commitment. The teacher should help his student to learn this art. First, he should practice it himself. The teacher...

Author: By Ralph BARTON Perry, | Title: Two Memorable Addresses | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

What should the teacher try to do about it? I suggest that there is what might be called an "art of decision"--an act of commitment following an interval of non-commitment. The teacher should help his student to learn this art. First, he should practice it himself. The teacher...

Author: By Ralph BARTON Perry, | Title: Two Memorable Addresses | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

If a man complains of a headache every Monday morning, it may just be hangover. If he gets fever or a bellyache every Wednesday, or at some other regular interval, he may be suffering from "periodic disease," an ailment which has doctors thoroughly baffled.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fever Every Wednesday? | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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