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Word: mill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfamiliar items outnumber the familiar. Still, however strange they look to American eyes, they are commonplace in the countries from which they come; few things are carried simply because they are odd. Cardullo's knows that that chocolate covered ants and fried grasshoppers -- those staples of run-of-the-mill "exotic" food stores -- do not a delicatessen make...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Circling the Squares: The Two Cultures | 10/9/1963 | See Source »

...Jamaica Committee, on the other hand, attracted scientists and philosophers. Charles Darwin was passionately involved, even though his own theory of the survival of the fittest had been bor rowed by the imperialists. Darwin was joined by John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Charles Lyell. Thomas Henry Huxley was moved to sardonic eloquence: "I daresay Eyre did all this with the best of motives, and in a heroic vein. But if English law will not declare that heroes have no more right to kill in this fashion than other folk, I shall take an early opportunity of migrating to Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shame of Empire | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...Eyre were not punished, English liberties would be everywhere in jeopardy. The committee tried to bring Eyre to trial for murder, but they could never get an indictment, even though the Lord Chief Justice declared that Eyre had broken the law. Eventually the committee gave up. John Stuart Mill, Eyre's most implacable foe, was defeated for re-election to Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shame of Empire | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

Although the station's plans to build a one-story studio over the garage at Mill and Plympton streets are a year old, the Yearbook has only recently weighed going into the project with WHRB...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: WHRB, Yearbook Consider Building Two-Story Permanent Quarters | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

They came from all over: a mill hand from Leningrad, a crown prince from Oslo, an oilman from Houston-some of the best small-boat sailors in the world. Two were former world champions, four were Olympic gold medalists, five had won the Scandinavian Gold Cup. For seven days, on the wind-lashed waters of Long Island Sound, they battled for the world's 5.5-meter sailing championship. And when the contest ended last week, they sadly packed their sail bags and left the championship to C. Raymond Hunt, 55, a bespectacled grandfather from Tilton, N.H., who had never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yachting: Victory by Design | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

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