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Word: thousandfold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stern spirits by the thousandfold . . . Then, with the air of a minstrel who stills his lute and steps forward to address his audience, Graves breaks into prose: "You wish to know which of the gods originated the quarrel between these Greek princes, and how this happened? I can tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Olympian Satire | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Mobile forces, deployed around the world on 24-hr, alert, are backed up by the world's most modern manned bombers; atomic weapons have increased the striking power of U.S. military forces a thousandfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Sputnik Syndrome | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...TIME erred a thousandfold, should have said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Purple Plain (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists) has something new and exotic to recommend it: a stunning 21-year-old Burmese beauty named Win Min Than, which means "brilliant a thousandfold." When she shimmers into focus in a screen-size closeup with a tremulous smile on her lips, sympathetic vibrations start humming around the movie house. They keep on humming as the girl with the almond-shaped eyes and trim little figure speaks the precise and attractively British English that she learned at an Irish convent in Rangoon. Her role in the movie (her first) is largely therapeutic. A crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: British Imports | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...room with the safety rules and precautions of a radioisotope laboratory, 2 cc. of fluid containing live polio virus are added as a seed stock to each quart of tissue fluid. Back to the rocker go the bottles. The virus multiplies a thousandfold in the kidney cells, and after about four days the potentially deadly crop is ready for harvest. It is chilled in 2½gal. bottles for trucking from Toronto to Eli Lilly & Co. and to Parke, Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closing in on Polio | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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