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Word: theses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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It happens to every man sooner or later: eager to have sex, he finds himself impotent, unable to achieve or sustain an erection. For most men such disappointments are fleeting episodes in otherwise successful sex lives. But for perhaps as many as 10 million American males impotence is a devastating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Arguing for the Government, Assistant Attorney General Drew Days maintained that Congress had no need to provide a detailed justification for the 10% set-aside, since it had "unique competence" to right past wrongs as it saw fit. Although the Government had been trying to help minority businesses in various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: How Far Can Congress Go? | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

In 1894 a surplus of ivory coming out of the Congo prompted the Belgian government to offer the material free to sculptors. Many accepted, and the ivory statuette soon stood tall in the art deco movement. Isadora Duncan by Alberto Savinio (Franco Maria Ricci; 184 pages; $125) shows just how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves for $4.95 and Up | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

From their printing shop in Lower Manhattan, Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives taught 19th century America to see itself. Their lithographs re-created urban and rural growth, disasters, the opening of the West and a vast anthology of occupations and pastimes. The Great Book of Currier & Ives' America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves for $4.95 and Up | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Kilims, or flat-woven rugs, have long been considered the s poor relatives of the Oriental knotted pile rugs that have proved to be one of the best -though specialized-hedges against inflation in recent years. Kilims by Yanni Petsopoulos with Michael Franses (Rizzoli; 394 pages; $85) gives these weavings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves for $4.95 and Up | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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