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Word: nationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the time came to vote in Nigeria's first national elections last week, the candidates were too tired and hoarse for last-minute attacks on opponents, instead led their numbed election-eve audiences in singing tribal ballads, on the plausible theory that enough was enough.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Democracy, Its Pains | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Said the National Cancer Institute's Dr. Roy Hertz: "In very rare instances, cancers have arisen in patients after very prolonged use of stilbestrol, and some physicians have been led to conclude that stilbestrol was a causative factor in these cases."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

CERN will rule the roost in high-energy physics until the 30-Bev machine at Brookhaven National Laboratory goes into operation next year. It may be tops even then; Dutch-born Professor Cornelius Bakker, CERN's director, thinks that his machine can be revved up to Brookhaven's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: United for Atoms | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Other difficulties were politico-economic; the businessmen of CERN's participating nations jockeyed for bigger shares of the fat engineering contracts. But the scientists, including Communist Yugoslavs, worked in amity. At CERN there were no weapons projects and no problems of national security. "Any scientist can work here, help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: United for Atoms | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Dietzel v. Vaught. But from the start, young Perry Lee seemed to listen most respectfully to two top men of the tough Southeastern Conference: Louisiana State's blond, boyish Paul Dietzel, coach of last season's national champions, and Mississippi's canny, reticent Johnny Vaught, coach of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capturing the Big Gun | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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