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Word: un (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monday night Young attended a dinner of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee which, although branded as Communistic by the House Committee on un-American Activities, has not been placed on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYDC Hits A.L. | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

Residents of Barnard, Cabot, Holmes, Moors, and Whitman generally supported the idea of selecting a best-dressed 'Cliffie to enter the Glamour contest. Last year, Barnard and Moors refused to choose candidates, describing the competition as "immoral and un-Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffies Disagree Over Proposal to Choose Candidate for Best-Dressed Girl Competition | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

This is not only un-American and ungodly, but grows out of intolerance and ignorance, a poor basis for belief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Sudan-temples, forts, chapels, churches, mosques, tombs, prehistoric wall drawings-will be submerged in the 300-mile-long Nubian lake to be created by the building of the High Dam at Aswan. Rivaling Abu Simbel in historical value is the Greco-Roman temple on Philae Island, gradually built un over earlier ruins beginning in the 3rd century B.C. Philae is already flooded five months of the year by the existing dam at Aswan, and when the first stage of the new High Dam is completed upstream by Soviet engineers and Egyptian workmen in 1965, the island and its temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Death by Drowning | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...recitals, at weddings and funerals, without ever taking a lesson. When she left school, she turned down a Hollywood offer because she wanted to, become a nun. Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing Butterfly's Un bel di, the only operatic aria she knew. When she auditioned before Conductor Eugene Ormandy. he marveled: "It is impossible for anyone that beautiful to know how to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Radnor High | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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