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Word: unless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unless we judge a magazine on make-up or typicality, Summer's dish of pot-pourri fails to justify its seventy-five cents. Audience is heavy and directionless. And dull...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Big Little Magazines: Post-War Inflation in the Avant-Garde | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...Puerto Ricans continue to have no voting representative in Congress and cannot vote for the presidency (unless they move to one of the states)-but pay no U.S. income taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: The Bard of Bootstrap | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

There is no point in shooting at the moon unless the shooter can tell if he makes a hit. so all sorts of methods have been proposed to signal back to earth that the impact has occurred. An obvious way, advocated by Professor Fred Singer of the University of Maryland, would be to explode a nuclear charge on the lunar surface. It would make a visible flash, and although its crater would probably be too small to be seen with the biggest telescopes, it might toss up a vast amount of fine lunar dust. If the explosion took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunar Probe | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...Algeria. Only the day before, Leon Delbecque, dynamic leader of the rebel junta (TIME, June 9), his once boundless faith in De Gaulle shaken by his idol's failure to name a single insurgent leader to a government post, had appeared in Paris to warn the general that unless De Gaulle revamped his Cabinet, his trip to Algeria would end in disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Successful Mission | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...women's magazines are full of frightening stories about older women who let themselves go-and wake up to find their husbands gone. "A woman who doesn't wear lipstick," says Max Factor, president of one of the top five U.S. cosmetics firms, "feels undressed in public. Unless she works on a farm." The result: 95% of all women over the age of twelve now use at least one of the products manufactured by the U.S. beauty industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Pink Jungle | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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