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Word: solids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup-like "EMNID" Institute were anxious to see Germany remain a sovereign state; the solid majority (52%) favored membership in a European union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: The Quiet Revolution | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Career: Joined Philadelphia's solid Drexel & Co. investment house, sold securities, rose to partner in 1940, became a civic wheelhorse in Philadelphia's Associated Hospital Service, Child Guidance Clinic, Boy Scouts, Navy League, also served as a private in the National Guard. Commissioned in Navy intelligence in 1942, he sailed in major campaigns (Southern France, Philippines, Okinawa, Iwo Jima), performed gallantly (two Bronze Stars), was mustered out as a commander after 42 months, rose to captain in the Reserve and retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SALT AT THE HELM | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...pleasant position to have to urge the value of his own contributions." But he feels that a more flexible retirement plan would not force a man to leave his work. Bridgman's high pressure experiments and equipment are now in the capable hands of William Paul, Assistant Professor of Solid State Physics...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Old Scholars Never Fade; Scientists Go Away | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

Instinctively looking for something solid to lean on, he turned to his master reading list. With rapid, but controlled glances he searched for an oversight. The hunt was fruitless, though, for his check, counter-check system left no room for mistakes. The blame, clearly, lay with Miss Schroeder...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: The Silent Generation | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

...most powerful atom smasher now scheduled, and certainly the biggest. To build it, engineers will drive a tunnel two miles through the solid rock of a minor mountain near Palo Alto. This rocky housing will keep its radiation from frying innocent bystanders. At the accelerator's business end will be a complex knot of laboratory buildings stuffed with futuristic apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms Under the Mountain | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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