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Word: strait (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juxtaposition of two works--one from the School of Worcester and the other by Dunstabe--served to point up the great differences between the medieval and Renaissance approach: the former was sturdy and barbaric, the lines being forced into a rhythmic strait-jacket with a witting unconcern for beauty of sound; the latter was smooth and euphonious, with emphasis on serene arches of sophisticated simplicity...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Adams House Musical Society | 2/18/1955 | See Source »

...although Nikita Khrushev's rise to power may not estrange the two nations, pessimists are wrong if they see the events in Moscow as leading to an all-out world war. There is no evidence that the resignation of Georgia Malcukov was timed with developments in the Formosa Strait, or that any other connection exists between...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: New Russian Leadership Change Will Not Affect Soviets' Friendly Red China Policies, Expert Says | 2/15/1955 | See Source »

Reports that two or more Communist submarines are in the Formosa Strait ought not to precipitate any drastic war-like measures by the Eisenhower Administration, Daniel S. Cheever, lecturer on Government, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheever Says Subs Off Formosa Should Not Lead U.S. to Warfare | 1/22/1955 | See Source »

...square miles in area, which lies only five miles from the mainland, twelve miles from the Communist port city of Amoy. Off Quemoy last week a furious little skirmish between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists was being fought across a few thousand yards of choppy blue water in Formosa Strait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Testing Point | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...icebreakers, the Navy's Burton Island and the Coast Guard's Northwind, had successfully cut their way through McClure on a joint U.S.Canadian expedition. Neither ship made a complete passage from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean; the Burton Island sailed through the Prince of Wales Strait from the west and turned around Banks Island to push westward again through McClure Strait (see map); the Northwind pushed eastward from the Arctic Ocean. Both ships used helicopters to scout the best passage through the ice. Unusually heavy melting of barrier ice eased the passage; even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Direct Route | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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