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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political parties," and went on-amid shouts of "Kassem for first President of the Republic"-to promise a new constitution and free elections within a year. Whether in fact General Kassem and his army will dare freely surrender the fruits of their revolution to civilians remains to be seen: the experience of Middle East politics is all against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: One Year Later | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...performances in the Ionesco plays at Tufts a few weeks back, is a bit gawky and uneasy in the role of the young architect. Hopefully he will bring more poise and decisiveness to his movement as the run progresses. For he is one of the most versatile young actors seen in this community in quite a while...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'The Moon Is Blue' | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...have longed for years to see Venus occult a bright star. But such events are extremely rare. Venus looks big because of sunlight reflecting brightly from its faintly yellow cloud deck; actually, to earth-bound observers its disk is never larger (usually much smaller) than a golf ball seen from a distance of 500 ft. As the tiny sphere creeps slowly across the star field, it occasionally covers a faint star, but not once since the invention of the telescope 350 years ago has it covered anything like Regulus, a star of the first magnitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lighted by Regulus | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...carpenter, and the king agreed to let him try his skill with the great log alone in a locked room. But after several days, when he had heard no sound of hammer and chisel, the king flung open the doors. The old carpenter was nowhere to be seen; there were only three large idols-Jagannath and his brother and sister, Balabhadra and Subhadra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Juggernaut | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 200 Ibs.), well-tailored Birrell has not been seen in the U.S. since November 1957, when he failed to answer a warrant for his arrest in a Securities and Exchange Commission case involving Swan-Finch. Since then he reportedly has been in Havana and other foreign capitals leading a fast and elegant existence, always with a beautiful girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Infallible Strategist? | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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