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Word: non (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dues-paying members of the Commuters' Center will vote at Dudley Hall, and non-dues-paying commuters at the Student Council office in Phillips Brooks House. The seniors will select three class marshals and nine members of a permanent class committee from 69 candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuters Open Balloting for '50 Committee Today | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...London's County Hall last week, 261 delegates from 53 countries, representing some 48 million members, met to launch a new international non-Communist labor organization. Provisional title: the Free World Labor Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Free Labor | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...with only the Soviet bloc in opposition and Yugoslavia abstaining, the U.N. General Assembly last week approved the U.S.British-sponsored resolution listing twelve "essentials" for peace and international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 21). Then, by a similar margin, the Assembly rejected the rival Russian resolution proposing a phony non-aggression pact among the big powers and smearing the Western nations as warmongers. The vote meant total defeat for the Russians' major effort at the current Assembly session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Rebuff | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Mighty in the Mountains. So adapted, Andean man can perform amazing quantities of work at altitudes where non-adapted lowlanders fall gasping and retching. The somber-eyed, long-exploited descendant of the Incas is in fact a sort of superman. "After eight hours' hard work in mines at more than 16,000 feet above sea level," says Dr. Monge, "his idea of relaxation is a soccer match in which he sometimes plays barefooted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Living Superman | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...have small wings and a ramjet as well as a rocket motor. Its maximum speed, 9,140 m.p.h., would carry the ship 1,200 miles on an elliptical course outside the atmosphere. As it curved down toward the earth, it would meet the air again and turn into a non-powered glider. Coasting through the air for another 1,800 miles, it would land at 150 m.p.h.-not much more than the landing speed of many modern fighter craft. Duration of flight from Los Angeles to New York: one hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rockets Up & Down | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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