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Word: symbolized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ibis, the traditional symbol of the The Lampoon, was reported missing Saturday from its long-standing perch atop the magazine's building. University police are investigating the bird's disappearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon's Ibis Has Flown | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...Original Gibson Girl," widow of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, second of the "five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia" (including Britain's Lady Astor); in Greenwood. Va. As pictured by her husband, with her sweetly haughty expression, hourglass figure and stylish pompadour, she became the gaslight era's symbol of genteel femininity, influenced the dress, manners and flirtations of a generation of U.S. girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...massive dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in the heart of the City was repeatedly showered with incendiaries and pierced by direct hits. But while whole areas surrounding the cathedral were reduced to rubble, the building designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1675 became a symbol of London's ability to take it. The morning after a night's heavy bombing, London bobbies would look up at the cathedral, then proudly pass the word: "It's O.K. St. Paul's is still there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cathedral Setting | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...story office building farther down Ludgate Hill, while keeping the distant view of the dome unobstructed; 4) redesign of the close-in area into a series of interconnecting courts (including a 240-car underground garage) to give partial views of the cathedral; 5) moving London's Temple Bar, symbol of the City's independence, where, ceremonially, even the monarch must pause for permission to pass, to a site between St. Paul's north transept and the forecourt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cathedral Setting | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...case of arithmetic, Skinner complained that "modern children simply do not learn arithmetic quickly or well.... The glimpse of a column of figures, not to say an algebraic symbol or an integral sign, is likely to set off--not mathematical behavior--but a reaction of enixiety, guilt, or fear...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Skinner Machines Make Classroom Like Kitchen | 4/18/1956 | See Source »

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