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Word: seenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Close precautions were taken at the Houses, Radcliffe, Harkness, and the Business School to ensure that all voting procedures were thoroughly fair. At the Law School, however, no cross-check could be made with the names of the individuals voting, so the Law School results must be seen as less than completely definitive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 7000 Vote for President in Crimson Poll | 10/25/1956 | See Source »

...most of the time, Disney does achieve a satisfying balance, particularly in the orchestration and visual description of a Bach fuge. The musicians themselves are first seen playing amid fantastic shadows and color. Then parts of the musical instruments, dissembled as in a Picasso abstraction, vibrate to the melodies. And finally, as the music builds up, the instruments become flashing linear descriptions of the themes...

Author: By Peter R. Breggin, | Title: Fantasia | 10/25/1956 | See Source »

Oriental children have never slept in a bed or used a knife and fork. Some of the North Africans have been brought up in caves. Since Kurdish children are to be seen and not heard, their parents seldom converse with them, and the children never learn how to ask questions. They have never seen a book or heard a bedtime story. They cannot write their names. Their inquisitiveness blocked almost from birth, they succumb to total passivity. By the time they reach school, they can speak only about 100 words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Integration in Israel | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...Peace. An uneven but brilliantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some of the best battle pieces ever seen on film; with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer (TIME. Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Endorsement. In El Paso, asked why he always drew his forged checks on the Continental National Bank of Fort Worth, James Delbert Smith, described by the FBI as "one of the nation's top" forgers, explained: "They are the best-looking checks I have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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