Word: datedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Air Cocoon. The high-pitched whine of the jet engines has brought complaints from householders near airports, led some airports to impose restrictions that cut into the jets' payload. But despite all the uproar, the sound suppressors that every jet uses cut their noise level to that of a...
To Fly or to Fall. But if Scarborough drew Labor together behind GaitskelFs lead, it was nonetheless a defensive conference, and hardly the kind to inspire a party trying to return to power. "United we fall," cracked one prominent Laborite. Socialists, tied to a creed outworn, see the Tories successfully...
This heavy oversubscription indicated that the Treasury may have put too high an interest rate on the securities. It could take little comfort in what the new offerings did to old Treasury bonds, which were already in trouble. Eleven of the longer-dated issues touched new 1958 lows, and the...
This was enough to send Dr. Heil back to Manhattan for another close-up inspection. With mounting excitement he dated the marble, through ultraviolet examination, as from the 16th century. The workmanship, he found, was Renaissance in character. A few details-unsmoothed caliper marks on the cheeks, one wing of...
I predict that history will find the abstract expressionists as dated as the fur-lined teacup.