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Word: surprisingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diesel may not be the way to go. Given the high aromatic content of diesel fuel and its propensity for creating particulates, chemical intuition suggests that it would be surprising if diesel exhaust did not contain appreciable amounts of first-rate carcinogens. As a professor of physical chemistry, I for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1979 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Such experiments look recondite in the '70s, and they must have looked quite peripheral when they were done. The audience for them was small compared with that for a radical poet like Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the link that planar sculp ture sought between art and technology was often frustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: At the Meeting of the Planes | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

The lack of response seems all the more surprising considering how unprecedented the naming of the forum is. The Engelhard Library is part of a long tradition of purifying dirty money by honoring the former owner after his death. But there is no tradition of naming Harvard buildings for living...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: The ARCO Connection | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

In the final round, Floch was clearly tiring and McDonald took advantage rapidly. He landed a short right hand to Floch's more-than-ample midsection, but he escaped ending the fight in prone postion by the barest of margins. The surprising close margin of the three judges read, 58...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: New Yorkers Prevail in IAB Boxing | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

One cause of Ford's difficulties is Roy Cohn, the Manhattan lawyer. Since his days as a get-the-dirt investigator for Senator Joseph McCarthy, Cohn has built a deserved reputation as a maverick who relishes the pursuit of the powerful and is as ready to do his pursuing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trouble in the House of Ford | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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