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Word: sampleses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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To The Pilot, Boston's official Catholic weekly, Bishop Lord's questions were "ridiculous," and to show why, the paper addressed a few contentious questions of its own to a possible Methodist candidate. Samples:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Questions for 1960 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

He also got his first taste of Soviet heckling, and he drew cheers from Russian bystanders by politely turning aside hostile questions. Samples:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Better to See Once | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Lectures & Whims. Many of the samples that lured Western businessmen also turned out to be junk, and others were not delivered in promised quantities. Orders of iron bars arrived with pockmarks of rust, textile bolts with lengths misstated, rice colored by bluing on the sacks. In Shanghai, 20 out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Chinese Junk | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

The Public Health Service reported last week some disturbing byproducts of the Atomic Age. For a year its experts studied the Animas River in Colorado and New Mexico, whose water is used for the homes of 30,000 people. Below the Durango, Colo. uranium refinery of the Vanadium Corp. of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Valley of Strontium 90 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Author De Vries has rationed his wordplay in Tents and cut down on the puns and epigrams. Samples: "persona non Groton," "the Symbol Simons of literature," "What is chastity but an overemphasis on sex?" In Tents, the literary parodies are the thing, and some of them are hilariously apt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adrift in a Laundromat | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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