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Word: known (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tours to unfriendly countries. Surely U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree, who had to flee for his life in Baghdad [Dec. 29], was not there of his own volition. What facts were disclosed in the go-minute meeting between Mr. Rountree and General Kassem that were not already known to U.S. Ambassador Gallman and which could have been transmitted to Washington in a diplomatic pouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1959 | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...them with a fingernail or the smoothly curved end of a paper clip. This extreme sensitivity, called dermographia ("writing on the skin") is the usual explanation when patients complain that they are "allergic to everything," two Little Rock physicians reported in the A.M.A. Journal. Although the condition has been known for years, it is often overlooked and causes a lot of needless doctoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Human Scratch-Pad | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...other nationally known authorities on government, Stephen K. Bailey, professor of Government at Princeton, and Earl Latham '30, professor of Government at Amherst, will lecture on American political organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elliott Announces Summer School Courses, Faculty | 1/16/1959 | See Source »

...award, which consists of a gold and silver medal and a stipend of $5000, was initiated in 1796 for the purpose of encouraging and honoring outstanding discoveries in the area of physics then known as "heat and light." Previous winners include Enrico Fermi, Edwin Langmuir, and Thomas Edison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologist Wald Wins Honor for Research On Sight Processes | 1/15/1959 | See Source »

...other House Masters are expected to make their appointments known today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Elects Council Members; Three Masters Make Selections | 1/13/1959 | See Source »

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