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Word: seales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dare you! On the official seal, it's "Iowa State University of Science and Technology." Some prefer "Not-the-Football-One, ' others "Moo U." But "Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Ar s [Oct. 5]?" Man, that's gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...Chou En-lai complained: "The imperialists ridicule our adjusted 1959 plan as a 'big leap backward' . . . Obviously, it is a continued great leap forward on the basis of the exceptionally big leap forward [the year before]." Last week, quick to take a hint, Peking's trained-seal statisticians announced in advance the overfulfillment of 1959 targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Numbers Game | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...Communist organizers also did their best to seal off potentially receptive satellite groups by housing them all over Vienna. The Hungarians, for example, were isolated on barges in the Danube, and Festival guards checked all boarders. For these groups of delegates the Communists had a grab-bag of attractions...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Vienna Festival Chants 'Peace, Friendship' | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

...directed by Stevens, Property was produced in Stevens' own Hollywood backyard, has Stevens' actress wife (Kate Manx) as its star, cost only $60,000, and has already brought bids of more than $300,000-although the movie has yet to win Hollywood's Production Code seal of approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Happy Hack | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...products should not rate air time at all, e.g., hemorrhoid remedies. This spring, when the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's President Donald McGannon took charge of the N.A.B. code review board, offenders were told to stop talking about hemorrhoids and other such "intimately personal" problems or forfeit the code seal of approval, but 20 stations decided that they could get along without it. Further, McGannon's review board went on to criticize commercials for toilet paper, deodorants, laxatives, etc. In a confidential report shown to station owners and trade associations, McGannon's board finds much amiss with commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tearing the Tissue | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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