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Word: res (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition res silen scholars sindy here under the exchange visitors program. These men include visiting professors, reseavchors, trainees, and specialists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Foreign Student Total Puts University 2nd in Nation | 12/6/1952 | See Source »

...himself, Meurant obligingly told the police, was in reality Soviet Operative B 17. The Mongol, he went on, had hidden in the trunk compartment of his car, stripped the countess to find some secret papers she was carrying, and strangled her, all before Meurant could interfere. "Brassières and panties," Meurant told an Amiens court informatively, "are excellent for hiding microfilm." After searching high & low for the Mongol, French justice finally condemned Léon Meurant to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Droll Fellow | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...schoolboy fashion. Some, already embarked, dashed down for a second round of goodbyes with wives & children. Above the din of shouts and whistles, a group of French Canadians rousingly sang their regimental song, bag pipes skirled Tipperary, and a brass band blared Mad'moiselle from Armentières...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Off to Europe | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Workmen digging drains in the village of Buxiéres-les-Froncles, a hundred-odd miles from Paris, last week uncovered the bones of five men, each with his skull cracked, each wrapped in the shreds of a long-outmoded uniform. The mayor, the local schoolteacher and five policemen investigated the strange discovery, got a thorough explanation from the village's oldest inhabitant, 91-year-old Emilie Guillaumot. Her story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Secret | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...when one of his customers writes in for an especially exotic book. An elderly spinster recently asked for a book bound in human skin. Foyle sent out his scouts, within a week shipped her a copy of French Novelist Eugène Sue's Vignettes les Mystères de Paris, printed in 1843 and bound in skin from the shoulders of his Parisian mistress, as she had directed in her will. Price: $28. Says William Foyle: "It's an interesting business, bookselling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Barnum of Books | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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