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Word: untold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated 6,000,000 Jews and untold numbers of gypsies and slave laborers perished in the racial and religious mass murder of Naziism. But there were other victims whose "crimes" were individual and matters of conscience. Here, 57 such victims, most of them German Christians, speak their last from Hitler's charnel houses; their words blend into a vox humana whose organ tone speaks of things older than man's inhumanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty-Seven Martyrs | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...from New London, Conn., on a cruise to New York, slips the symbol of them all: the nuclear submarine Nautilus, its atomic engines still generating untold power after a year-and upwards of 30,000 miles-without refueling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Admiral & the Atom | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Adenauer's Ordeal. The untold story of West Germany's shortcomings might be called the ordeal of that great old man Konrad Adenauer. Der Alte saw his deepest convictions shaken. Even his closest intimates only partly appreciate how severely that ordeal tried his spirit and paralyzed his decision. Germany has scamped its obligations in almost exactly the degree that his hand has faltered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Year of Disappointment | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Carload on Wednesday. Even worse, says Illinois Bell, are the companies that use the no-toll long distance call to transact business. Some produce firms, collection agencies and manufacturers are among the offenders, costing the telephone company untold revenue every year. A fruit company in California may call its distributor in Chicago, and ask for "Mr. Brown." Translated, the words mean that it has a carload of seedless grapefruit at $2 a case. The answer, "Sorry, Mr. Brown is in Portland," means, "Fine, send a car load for Wednesday delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: The Free Phone Call | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Somehow a weak Williams team had held the varsity to a one-goal lead at the end of the second period and even had led the Crimson for twelve minutes of the game. Williams goalie Dick Marr saved 34 shots in the two periods, and untold more had missed the cage, hit the posts, and even hit Crimson players in front of the cage...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Varsity Sextet Defeats Williams, 10-3 With Seven Tallies in Final Period | 2/15/1956 | See Source »

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