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Word: nationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Deep in a hitting slump, the San Francisco Giants brought up lean (6 ft. 4 in., 180 Ibs.) Willie McCovey from Phoenix, Ariz. The new Negro first baseman scored three runs and drove in two in his first game, knocked across the winning score in his second, went 3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scoreboard | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

¶ Bishop Lord and other Methodist leaders have many times proposed political action at variance with the established national policy, such as recognition of Red China or its admittance to the United Nations. Would you disobey the directives of your religious leaders and remain loyal to the traditional American policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Questions for 1960 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Died. Frederick Emerson Peters, 73, suave, oft-jailed swindler who passed about 28,000 bad checks, netted $250,000 in a career of 200 impersonations, including a college professor, retired actor, Paris Peace Conference delegate, and such definitive roles as Franklin Roosevelt and Writer Philip Wylie, charmed his victims so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Chairman Martin pointed out that the index of industrial growth is a more significant indication of the economy's bustle than many other indicators, such as gross national product. It is a pure index of real production, does not include the inflationary rise in prices, which often makes the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: New Yardstick for the U.S. | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

TALLEST BUILDING west of Mississippi will be built by Humble Oil Co. in Houston. It will cost $32 million, rise 44 floors (604 ft.), eight floors higher than Dallas's Republic National Bank Building, now tallest (598 ft.).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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