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Word: pressinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the 11th and 12th centuries, Burma's great empire at Pagan shone glamorously in its own context; in the 13th century, Tartary's Kublai Khan casually ordered it snuffed out. As casually as Kublai Khan, Red China's Liu Shao-chi recently marked counterrevolutionary Burma for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: The House on Stilts | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

But despite the wide use of official facts and figures-and the critical need for even more accurate measurements-Congress treats Government statistics like an unwelcome stepchild. The most pressing statistical needs now are new censuses of business, manufactures and mineral industries. All are old; the most recent-business-was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Government Statistics Are Needed | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

Offensive at Home. Yet Chou's victory was secured against a desperate background that Asians-and the West-seemed incapable of understanding. In a very pressing sense, Chou had to Wave peace in Indo-China.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chou the Strategist | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

At Fairfield Industrial High School, Willie picked up the nickname "Buckduck," and specialized in a course in cleaning and pressing. There was no baseball team, but Willie at 14 was already good enough to play with steel-mill clubs and independent semipros. When Willie was 16, Kitty Cat called up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

At its annual meeting in Glasgow last week, the British Medical Association found the matter pressing enough to open its scientific session with a serious discussion of sleep and the lack of it. Physicians from far-flung Commonwealth countries as well as those from Britain proper squirmed in comfortless, sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleepy Talk | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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