Word: ruggedness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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¶ In New Hampshire, the Republicans' liberal, maverick, Bible-quoting Senator Charles W. Tobey, 70, over 35-year-old Candidate Wesley Powell, professed conservative, for the U.S. senatorial nomination, by 1,420 votes after a rugged and bitter campaign (TIME, Sept.11).
Psychologist Sheldon (TIME, July 15, 1940) has never made any mystery of what he was up to: for 25 years he has been studying the relationship, if any, between physique and temperament. Though they probably never knew it, thousands of students from at least 30 colleges and universities have been...
Died. Edward H. Moore, 78, onetime schoolteacher who made millions in Oklahoma oil, became a U.S. Senator (1943-49); in Tulsa. A lifelong Democrat who turned against the New Deal, Moore was elected to the Senate (his first and last public office) on the Republican ticket, as an outspoken champion...
A quick, certain fate awaited any LeMay man who betrayed the slightest sign of the milkshaky unpreparedness that enveloped the occupation troops of Germany and Japan. The Strategic Air Command (known to the Air Force as SAC) was a $310 million-a-year business, a top-priority task force with...
Heat & Thirst. Such spirit helped to keep General Walker's "limited offensive" going on the south coast, in spite of appalling difficulties. Advancing on two winding roads through rugged country, the U.S. columns rarely had the flank protection they should have had. The enemy seemed to know just what...