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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could, theoretically, kill 100 million people), the botulin did not show its effects until the next day. Then the Gruwells and the four beet-eating Nelsons started to get headaches, feel dizzy, see double. Soon they could not swallow or speak clearly. They were taken to Idaho Falls' Latter-day Saints' Hospital, where their illness was quickly diagnosed. But then the doctors' difficulties began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Canned Death | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...play. The show went on, however, and with overwhelming success. The character of Wendy set a new fashion in children's names: and many youngsters believed in Peter's magic so thoroughly that they broke limbs while attempting to fly like him. (In case you are concerned about the latter, Sir James soon announced that one had to have Peter's particular brand of fairy dust in order...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: Peter Pan | 8/13/1959 | See Source »

...business, barbershop, butcher shop, grocery store and department store on Chicago's South Side, a cafe in Harlem, a cafe and a farm near Atlanta, also bought himself a luxurious, 18-room house near the University of Chicago. He founded "Universities of Islam" in Chicago and Detroit (the latter accredited by the local school board through the ninth grade) to teach his dogma to children and teenagers. Sample from his official temple creed: "There is no good in white men. All are the children of the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: The Black Supremacists | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Michael Loew favors the primordial: "Because the geometric aspect of the rectangular structure can be both tyrannical and primordial, the problem of reducing the former quality and increasing the latter becomes a challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What Is? | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Self-cast as a latter-day Joan of Arc in the Fronde, a kind of comic-opera civil war of the disgruntled French nobility, Mademoiselle achieved only the boring martyrdom of five years' rural banishment from the Paris she loved. After 4-3 years of stalwart virginity in the most lascivious court in Europe, she fell passionately in love with a toy-soldier-sized captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady Was a Bourbon | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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