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Word: polese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religion is lived by all the people. Hundreds of lamaseries house thousands upon thousands of monks and nuns whose days are spent in meditation and prayer. There are nearly as many Living Buddhas as there are lamaseries, including one female incarnation whose name translates as "Thunderbolt Sow." Prayer is everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIBET: The Three Precious Jewels | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

He was just a ten-year-old in Penns Grove, N.J. when he set his mind on becoming Tarzan-or a movieland version of him. Hanging ropes from the tallest trees around, he spent hours swinging from tree to tree. As he grew up, he even began to look the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Twig Was Bent | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

* In 1947 the Poles, as well as the Czechs and Hungarians, eagerly accepted a U.S. invitation to share Marshall Plan aid, later were pressured into refusing it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Livid Scar | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Vanguard has proved so regular, and its orbit can be charted so exactly, that it has been used to plot, with an accuracy never before possible, the exact position of oceanic islands. In the past, islands were mapped by celestial observations whose accuracy depended on the establishment of an exact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Durable Orange | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Dr. Heller's method was to set up a pulsed electromagnetic field (80-180 pulses per sec., 27 megacycles) between electrodes. When he put tiny bits of iron, carbon, silver, oil, fat, starch or mammalian cells on a glass slide between the electrodes, he found that any asymmetrical particle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Influence by Radio | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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