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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigation of the murder was botched, helped get an acquittal for the prime suspect, Nancy's husband. Count Marie Alfred de Fouquereaux de Marigny. When De Marigny was expelled from the islands after his acquittal, Nancy had the marriage annulled, tried marriage a second unsuccessful time, has been seen around London lately with Prince Philip's former private secretary, Lieut. Commander Michael Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: The Trouble with Harry | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...with a head like a deer and a long tail like an alligator, that stood on its hind legs like a bird and hopped like a frog. The kangaroo was real, nevertheless, and also real (probably or possibly) are other strange animals that have been seen only rarely by civilized man. This is the conviction of French-born Bernard Heuvelmans, and his book, On the Track of Unknown Animals (Hill & Wang; $6.95), makes fine reading for people who like to hear that new things can still be found without a spaceship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animals Unfound | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

There is the orang pendek, for instance -a smallish, hairy ape-man who lives (perhaps) in Sumatra. Natives take the orang pendek as a matter of course, and Dutchmen say they have seen them. Heuvelmans suspects that they are related to the nittaewo, the semi-aborigines of Ceylon, who were killed off about 1800 by the primitive Veddahs. Heuvelmans' theory is that much of southern Asia was inhabited long ago by small, hairy descendants of Java's Pithecanthropus erectus, who were largely exterminated by the invading humans. The orang pendeks, hiding deep in Sumatran jungles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animals Unfound | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...been explored so superficially that they may contain all sorts of creatures unknown to science. Explorers glimpse them, perhaps bring back a few strips of skin or a blurry photograph, and are greeted with skepticism or accused of attempting a hoax. The pygmy hippopotamus of West Africa has been seen repeatedly since the 1840s. Skulls were brought out for study, and a young one actually lived several weeks in the Dublin zoo. But for 50 years authorities refused to accept it as a real and new genus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animals Unfound | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Trial by Fire. What has kept Torroja largely unknown is that most of his work is to be seen only in Spain. But the very fact that Spain is woefully short on steel supplied the driving force behind Torroja's exploration of concrete as a material that could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Art of Structure | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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