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Word: yourselfing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Bluff in the Bastion. Like a good poker player, the Countess Skarbek could play it close to the chest or stake all on a bluff. In 1944, wanted dead or alive by the Germans, she walked boldly into a Nazi prison camp ahead of the American advance, and demanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Countess | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Their experiments are far from exceptional. All over the U.S., thousands of couples are building or finishing their own homes; thousands more are remodeling their old ones. Partly, their activity is a new expression of the old American passion for working with their hands; it has sent the sales of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Do It Yourself | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Cornell's Peter Debye, 68, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist, author of the Debye theory of the specific heat of solids. Born in The Netherlands, Debye succeeded Einstein as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich, served as director of Berlin's Max Planck Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

Because of the travel boom, shippers believe that England's Queens have been exceptions to the general rule, and have been raking in dollars. But the Queens have a big advantage over the United States. Their labor costs are 75% lower, and they can shuttle back & forth on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Invasion, 1952 | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

Citation: "Concerned de rerum atque homini natura, you compel attention to the dynamic of the destructible atom on the one hand, and of the indestructible human spirit on the other. Owing allegiance to the truth . . . you have dedicated yourself as citizen, with almost Calvinistic zeal, to testing the American-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: KUDOS, Jun. 16, 1952 | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

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