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Word: similarly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S sentimental, sweet story about superhuman, superpious Rockefeller showed extremely bad taste. I never read a similar accumulation of platitudes. It was doubtless the worst piece of writing I ever read in your magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...verbal confusion surrounding these proposals, an attempt has been made to cite, as having made "similar proposals," great world figures, even including His Holiness Pope Pius XII. All these men-like this Government, like all responsible and thoughtful leaders in the free world, statesmen or churchmen-are sincerely anxious for international agreement allowing effective control of all armaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE CASE FOR SECURITY | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Ballots & Boll Weevils. Gene Talmadge had long followed the career of Georgia's mellifluous, rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson. Gene approved of Watson's Populist movement and its appeal to country voters, and set out along the Watson trail to accomplish similar triumphs. The Georgia farmers of the 1920s were being battered by the boll weevil, would soon be battered harder by the Depression. Gene established himself as their champion. He filed for state commissioner of agriculture in the 1926 election, swept out a corrupt incumbent. When he could spare time, Herman helped by tacking up posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: The Red Galluses | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...establish healthy economic relations with the rest of the world. If we neglect to minister to its birth, it may outgrow us and have little need of Britain." A group of 82 Labor M.P.s and another of 89 Tories, more than 25% of the House of Commons, got behind similar resolutions. The press, save only Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express, chorused fervent approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Vision of Strength | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Leaving out the beard-stainers, color still forms a link between the leaf and the beard. Sunlight induces the light coloration of leaves and exerts a similar bleaching influence on the chin-whiskers. Later, with the sun's recession in the fall, leaves and beards take on mottled appearance...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: The Decline of the Genteel Beard | 10/13/1956 | See Source »

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