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Word: onto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuasion: the size of a theater program, it can be concealed in a book, fits easily into a standard German envelope. Baer's remarkable distribution system includes mailings from other countries, including Russia, and delivery by underground members, who delight in dropping copies into Stalin Alice mailboxes and onto the bookshelves of the Soviet House of Culture. Replies to a standard request for reader comment ("Don't forget to use a false return address") show that Tarantel is regularly read all over East Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Armed with a Snicker | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...offer Algeria's Moslem rebels something besides naked force, and by taking the gamble of extending the constitutional referendum to Algeria, he reconciled many left-wingers to his tighter, more disciplined constitution, added another 3,500,000 Algerian votes to his majority, and threw the rebel National Liberation Front onto the psychological defensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man of the Year | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Railway Express Agency, Inc. Hauling express parcels on its passenger trains, the Central said, accounts for $11 million of the $52 million deficit billed for passenger trains. Said the Central's president, Alfred E. Permian: "The old method of collecting parcels at gathering points and then loading them onto passenger cars is obsolete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Red-Ink Express | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...female parts) and their company of four men. Though a puppeteer may handle as many as four characters at a time (including dancing marionettes with 27 strings apiece), the art requires less finger dexterity than uncanny ability to project voice and body down from the overhead "bridge" onto the stage. "Some people can just throw themselves straight down the strings," says Cora. "I can't explain the secret. It's dancing, acting, singing, all wrapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bairds on the Wing | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...defunct London Mercury magazine; near Heathfield, England. Squire's Mercury was an outlet for the work of such Squire friends as Robert Graves, Robert Bridges, Siegfried Sassoon. listed among its contributors Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, G. B. Shaw, G. K. Chesterton. But the magazine ran onto financial reefs, disappointing Squire, who once wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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