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Word: ruggeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the rugged Schneeberg region straddling the border between Czechoslovakia and East Germany, the Russians have herded half a million human beings to dig uranium. Sanitary conditions are among the world's worst: open sewers and crowded barracks breed typhoid and dysentery, rats spread plague, and prostitution keeps the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snow-Mountain Sickness | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

After the rugged first day's trials, only eight of the 39 competitors were out of the running. Two days later, with the field narrowed to five (four Labradors and one golden), the judges called for one final test: a difficult double retrieve across the snow-fed Tolt River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Dog | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Pass the Lapu-Lapu. Ramon Magsaysay, rugged, tall (5 ft. n in.), is a blacksmith's son from Zambales, a province in western Luzon. He has both Chinese and Spanish blood, and calls himself a mixture of Ilokano and Tagalog, which refers to the dialects his parents speak. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Cleanup Man | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

This air show, watched by U.S. Air Force procurement officers, was a dash of superfluous salesmanship by De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Ltd. to mark the first deliveries on a big order of Beavers for the U.S. Air Force. U.S. experts were sold on the Beaver early this year when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Bush Pilot's Ideal | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

As a geologist for 32 years and a onetime professor at the Colorado School of Mines Dr. Victor Ziegler long suspected that the land around Worland, Wyo. near the Big Horn Mountain range was loaded with oil. Seven years ago, with his wife Isabella, he set out to prove it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: Bonanza's Bonanza | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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