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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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First step of the lunar pioneers should be to look for natural caves or volcanic shafts that could be filled with imported air and made habitable. If such caves are lacking, a good place to found a city would be the "Straight Wall," a vertical cliff 500 ft. high to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Home on the Moon | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Edible fats and oils will be in record supply in 1954, but not necessarily cheaper. Though a total 10.4 billion Ibs. (100 million above 1953) of such vegetable oils as soybean and cottonseed (both used in margarine and shortening) is forecast, Government price props will probably keep prices buoyed up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Looking at their heavy surplus four months ago, U.S. wheat farmers voted to let the government set strict quotas on their 1954 crop (TIME, Aug. 24). Last week it was the cotton farmer's turn to vote on acceptance of quotas and 90% parity, or reject them and get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Supports for Cotton | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

The old clock still ticks in the passage, the moonlight still shapes a white pool on the floor, a gust of icy wind still shakes the old house-but, often enough nowadays, the ghost that comes stalking is fresh from a textbook of modern psychiatry. Such old props as bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunting Season | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Running a television station is far more complex than operating a radio station or producing films. For this reason, an undergraduate television organization would now be impractical. Few undergraduates possess the experience or the ability to handle TV's expensive and intricate problems without guidance. But there is virtually nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TV and the Undergraduate | 11/10/1953 | See Source »

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