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Word: turnings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where it is beginning to do harm to our economic development program. The debate is spurious and it should be ended. Therefore, I have stated that I would support a plebiscite if all concerned would agree in good faith to accept, this time, the decision of the voters, and turn their attention to other issues of real and great importance to Puerto Rico. I am entirely confident that commonwealth status would be once more overwhelmingly endorsed by the Puerto Rican people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers. There Pilot Del Rich stopped to help another boat, which was hung up on a sandbar. The rest of the Friendship Cruisers moved past and out of sight. Rich set off after them. Time and again the boaters had been warned to turn left and head upstream into the Colorado, not downstream. But Rich unthinkingly took the wrong turn and cruised on into the white water of Cataract Canyon. It was a human mistake-past the point of no return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: One Human Error | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Kemble, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, was lately called out of retirement to direct The Program for High School Teachers of Science and Mathematics here. This "retreading" program established by the Ford Foundation seeks to educate high school teachers in the latest concepts of nuclear physics so that they in turn may keep their own students in step with modern science and technology...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Old Scholars Never Fade; Scientists Go Away | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

...having a laboratory in which to experiment, Bridgman has been forced to turn to his other interest, the Philosophy of Physics. He has just published a book, The Way Things Are, and has been writing for various scientific journals. He works in a study provided for him by the University, but he does not feel that he is doing the work he does best...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Old Scholars Never Fade; Scientists Go Away | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

...showed themselves students of politics, diplomacy, and intrigue. They were asked the same cautious questions on each campus, questions about the governmental and disciplinary structure of a post-war Algeria; fears about reprisals against the colonials, and about possible Communist influence in the Algerian freedom front. When their own turn came to ask questions, the Algerians showed their awareness of American affairs. They were disturbed mainly by the proviso placed on the National Defense Education Act scholarships; by the paralyzing effect of the Communist bogey on progressive organizations; and mainly by the moribund quality of student political activity. They...

Author: By Sara E. Sagoff, | Title: Rebels With a Cause | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

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