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Word: rams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophy you cannot avoid it. We are going to question the student's dearest beliefs," Demos states. "I don't try to protect the freshmen, but I don't attempt to ram the ideas into them. I try to examine also the assumptions on which science is built. Our job is to examine everything...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Divorces Preaching from Pedagogy Dominant University Attitude: Commitment to Non-Commitment | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...enough to merge with Thiokol Chemical Corp. last year, and Rockefeller got Thiokol stock that is now worth $4,200,000. In 1950, Rockefeller put $202,000 into low-flying Marquardt Aircraft Co., a pioneer in ramjet propulsion; his interest zoomed to $5,200,000 after Marquardt started making ram-jets for the Bomarc missile. But the fastest rise of all was in Itek. Two years ago Rockefeller, a camera bug, invested $279,000 in Itek Corp., which had plans for computer-like photo machines to handle information. He got some Itek shares as low as $2. They soared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Space-Age Risk Capitalist | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Substituting his judicial robes for a wrap-around of grandchildren, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Campbell Clark, 59, took his uneasy ease in a swimming pool in Dallas, where he was vacationing. Two of the kids, Tom, 5, and Ronda. 7, are children of William Ram sey Clark; the other nipper, eye-gouging Gail, 4, is the daughter of Justice Clark's daughter Mildred ("Mimi") Gronlund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...seats, they would not dent the Democrats' gerrymandered Assembly majority (410 to 170), but a good Republican showing might be an omen for 1961 general elections. Apparently Menderes thought so too: last week, after a bitter parliamentary debate, the Democrats used their safe majority to ram through the Assembly a measure postponing all byelections for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Taking No Chances | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...only authority is the cocky rebel army. "There is no trouble here, señor," said Lieut. Ramón Pérez, 32, commander of a tiny highway garrison called El Cobre, rousing himself from his afternoon siesta. Pérez' men had manned a .30-cal. machine gun on the guardhouse roof, and they stopped and searched all passing trucks. "If anybody we stop does not have identification-prisoner!" grinned Pérez. Off duty, the bearded, long-haired soldiers lounge about reading the leftist official army organ. Olive Green. Slogan: "The army is the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Class War | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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