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Word: sionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment Dwight Eisenhower strode into the Congres sional Room of Washington's Statler Hotel last week, the members of the Republican National Committee could sense the change in him. When it came to political meetings, Ike had always been a notorious foot-dragger. This time, ready and willing to address the committee's mid-term session, he was obviously a man with a message. Moments later, he took the rostrum to deliver a dart-sharp speech calling for a complete overhaul and rejuvenation of the Republican Party, from precinct captain to panjandrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: DWIGHT EISENHOWER, POLITICIAN | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on." ¶Present-day physicists, Einstein believes, are so busy gathering facts about the innards of atoms that they have no time for the great, round, four-dimen sional universe. He lists the main steps toward understanding the universe. First (after Newton's useful but insufficient Laws of Motion) came Maxwell's work on electromagnetic fields: the effect that electrical charges have upon space. Then Einstein himself, with his Theory of Relativity, explained gravitational fields: the effect that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lost Passion | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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