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Word: meaningfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Con Ed's ad took on dramatic meaning last week when seven big power feeder lines, strained beyond capacity by the extra demands of air conditioners and electric fans during one of New York's worst heat waves, cut off, blacking out a five-square-mile slice of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Lights Out | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Otto Standke craftily dismisses his cricket bats and similar flasheries, says they have no meaning; the real secret is contained in a doubly locked metal box, which he opens in the presence of no man. He is probably telling the truth, for the best guess entomologists have made about his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bird Scotcher | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Thank God for Jack Kennedy, who has the intestinal fortitude to put honor and his country's good above his job. (And I am a Republican.) And thank God for Ike, who also knows the meaning of honor and who also has the courage to do what he thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Twenty years ago G.V. Carey took a fling at drawing up his ideas on punctuation. Now he has updated and expanded his effort into a handy book, the best short compendium on the subject to be found anywhere. Carey regards punctuation as "governed two-thirds by rule and one-third...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: On the Shelf | 8/13/1959 | See Source »

For a Revitalized Life. With his begging bowl in hand, Jerm was informed that he could eat only what he had collected in one morning and was not allowed to save food. He was assigned to a companion and a tutor from among the professional priests and was told his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 90-Day Priests | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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