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Word: irenee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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As Supreme Court Justice Shneor Cheshin read each question, Amos Hacham would painfully draw himself up, holding his breath, his body rigid. Then the answer would come suddenly, in a harsh, monotonous cry. He missed scarcely a question. When it was over, Amos was hands-down winner of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Big Bible Battle | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

The 15 contestants in Jerusalem made up an intriguingly mixed company. They included chipper Myrtle Davis, 49, Southern Baptist schoolteacher from Buford, Ga., who won the Bible quiz on the $64,000 Challenge; tiny Irene Santos, 39, a Seventh-day Adventist schoolteacher from Brazil; tall Roman Catholic Paul Guillamier, 19...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Big Bible Battle | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

Died. Frederic Joliot-Curie, 58, atomic physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1935, member of the French Communist Party's Central Committee, winner of a Stalin Peace Prize in 1950; following surgery for an internal hemorrhage; in Paris. Marrying Irene Curie, daughter of Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Named by the President to the U.S. delegation for the 13th session of the United Nations General Assembly was a golden-voiced Connecticut Democrat: Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. The choice strengthened what has become a U.S. tradition of naming distinguished women as U.N. delegates. Among her predecessors: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Irene Dunne, actress, alternate U.N.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The $1,000 Word | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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