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Word: rest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school year begins with a shortage of 195,000 teachers; the need is so great that nearly half the next decade's college graduates should theoretically become schoolteachers. TV will soon be familiar in more than 750 schools; in time, it will be used in the rest of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...with President Eisenhower's request for removal of interest-rate ceilings on long-term Treasury bonds. Mills proposed three different solutions. failed to muster adequate support for any of them, wearily gave up fortnight ago and postponed any further action on the President's request for the rest of the session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Decline & Fall | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...extending the test ban two months to Dec. 31. Following day the Soviet Union announced that it will not resume its own testing until somebody else does-which left it up to the U.S. either to risk the propaganda loss of starting first or to let the suspension rest as it is. without the safeguards, e.g., inspection, it deems necessary to an effective agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Objections Overruled | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...children did the rest. Daughter René, dipping into a box of raisins, managed to spill about half of them on the tax office floor, happily trampled them into a gooey mess. Son Robbie wet his diapers, and Margaret Lockwood calmly changed them, draping the reeking castoffs over a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Female of the Species | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...this year, Ilocos Sur's murder roster totals 61, but the season is barely under way: in Ilocos Sur, as in the rest of the Philippines, elections will be held in November to choose new mayors, a new provincial governor and eight new Senators to send to Manila, and this always makes for unrest. As frightened priests (who celebrate separate Masses in Ilocos, one for each faction) called for peace and quiet, the Philippine government dispatched a battalion of 1,100 troops to the troubled province, and three more judges were rushed up to Vigan to help handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Mecca for Murder | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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