Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Work v. Tears. Despite the influx, the vast Amazon has only a sprinkling of people. The League of Nations once reckoned that the basin could support 900 million people, but only a scant 4,000,000 occupy the area, two-thirds of them caboclos, who live in huts, fish and...
After a month in Moscow, Georgia-born Author Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, 55, returned to the U.S. little richer but far wiser about the Soviets' fast way with a ruble. As one of the U.S.S.R.'s most popular U.S. writers (others: Mark Twain, Jack London...
Gadding about his native Midwest, Poet T. S. Eliot, 71, gazed nostalgically at some of his early published verses during a chat with newsmen at the University of Chicago. Then he went to St. Louis, where he was born and raised, for the centennial celebration of Mary Institute, a private...
At a convocation of the high-domed American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, members listened closely to papers on such diverse subjects as Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Neurospora and Bastards in the Roman Aristocracy. But the most surprising contribution was a half-hour gem of erudition, illustrated with colored slides, on The...
Flanagan's off-again-on-again heart stubbornly refused to resume its normal beat, though five doctors massaged it in relays for three hours. Adrenaline and other heart stimulators failed. So did electric shock. The trouble. Dr. Francis Coughlin Jr. decided, was that although heated blankets and hot-water...