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Word: wave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to be good if you're lucky." The picture went into production late in 1953, was completed before Archaeologist Kamal el Malakh hit the headlines with his surprise discovery of the solar boats beside Cheops' pyramid (TIME, June 7). Released now, the film should ride the wave of publicity a fairish distance before it hits box-office bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...thing the oil companies discovered was that no one had measured the full power of hurricanes. No one knew what force a wave could exert far below the surface of the sea, and no one had decided how high the surface would be lifted by hurricane winds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: THE OILMEN & THE SEA | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Beaty's constant anti-Semitism has received new impetus during the current McCarthyist wave of anti-Communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S.M.U. Professor Accused by Board Of Anti-Semitism | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

...less and less photogenic"), Capa was seldom far from the front lines. Armed with three cameras and a flask of Scotch, he jumped with U.S paratroopers into Nazi-held Germany. At Anzio he landed with the assault troops; on D-day he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave of the 1st Division. "For a war correspondent to miss an invasion," Capa said jauntily, "is like refusing a date with Lana Turner after completing a five-year stretch in Sing Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death Stops the Shutter | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Treasures in Wait. Diolé believes that "the future of archeology lies in the sea." Certainly many wrecks, some of them stuffed with well-preserved art objects, await the diving diggers. Those that lie near the shore in clear water are apt to be damaged by wave action and madre growths. Those that lie deeper or near the mouths of rivers which cover them with silt are better preserved, but are also harder to find and explore. Archeologists, Diolé thinks, should be taught to dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diving Diggers | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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