Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also warned against authors "who attempt to use mistakes of the past in coming out against leadership of literature and art by party and state." Too many of those who denounced loyal artists of Stalinist times as "varnishers" had since "scavenged in garbage pails and passed this off as life." He was all for "freedom of creative work," Khrushchev protested, despite the "lesson of Hungary, where the counterrevolution used some of these writers for its filthy aims and reminds us to what this can lead." (Original reports of the speech quote Khrushchev as saying that the Hungarians ought to have...
Last week Cyrus Gordon, professor of Near Eastern languages at Brandeis University, offered a solution to the mystery. Linear A, says he, does indeed use Minoan signs, but these parallel Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) syllables. Just as Ventris' discovery revealed that the Achaeans of the Greek mainland were not the illiterates that a reading of Homer suggests, but might well have been the civilized conquerors of Crete, so Gordon's thesis sheds a whole new light on the possible foundations of Greek civilization itself...
...suburbs of Darmstadt (pop. 125,000) stands one of the most unusual convents in Germany. No casual visitor to the Sisterhood of St. Mary would notice what makes it different; like most Roman Catholic nuns, its 58 sisters wear wedding rings symbolizing their spiritual marriage to Christ, use religious names, make confession regularly, and practice a special devotion to the Virgin Mary. What makes them unusual is that they are Protestants...
...extract tobacco tar from cigarettes for their cancer-tracking experiments on mice, doctors use strange contraptions that smoke cigarettes incessantly. Latest and biggest such smoking robot was installed last week in Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Puffing 600 cigarettes every ten minutes-100 cartons a day-the machine's rotating drum takes ten drags, ejects the butts and begins smoking new ones blown into place by compressed air. The smoke inhaled by the machine is broken down in refrigerated condensers to produce...
...Greenland. Even before the oilmen could place orders, the U.S. Defense Department asked De Long to use the same principle for a 1,000-ft. dock to help speed its Thule. Greenland airbase. Standard construction methods would have taken two years. By prefabricating, De Long cut the total time to six months. Since then, the Defense Department has ordered 17 more docks worth $16 million, rushed two to replace a wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough...