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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This plan is no pipe dream, Dr. Bhabha insists. India is already producing most of the instruments and electronic components that are needed in nuclear energy development. The country has a rapidly growing body of scientists and technicians. Already, in his opinion, India is approaching France in nuclear knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms for India | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Frank White is a symbol of the good sportsmanship that prevails wherever good fellows get together and light up a cigarette or pipe. . . ." The speaker coughed and put down his cigar...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1955 | See Source »

...Daddy," a young voice may pipe in 1965, "what did you do during the cold war?" If Daddy was a U.S. diplomat he may have to answer: "I tried to give away butter and eggs." If the small fry thinks this activity unheroic, he will be wrong. Scores of U.S. diplomats are working day and night, trying to allay the raging resentment of allies over the U.S. program for disposing of parts of its $7 billion accumulation of surplus commodities. Last week the storm reached a new intensity when Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson announced a desperate "test." The U.S., under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Bitter Butter | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Social Awareness. In Kansas City, Mo., after being slugged on the street by two pipe-swinging strangers, having the fuel tank of his car filled with sugar and the car's tires punctured with an ice pick, Grocery Clerk Homer P. Hatfield solemnly told police he thought that someone must have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...sold to a "responsible" bidder by the estates of George McCullagh and William H. Wright. Already mentioned as possible buyers: Roy H. Thomson, Canada's biggest newspaper publisher (TIME, Sept. 14, 1953), and Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison, whose property includes half interest in the big Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. Estimated minimum acceptable price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Sale | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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