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1950S
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The decade from 1950 to 1959
Synonyms:
1950s; fifties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("1950s" is a kind of...):
decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)
Context examples:
Derived from Wistar stock by the laboratory of Dr. Lewis at the Wistar Institute in the 1940s and 1950s, the Lewis is a white albino rat with genotype a, TyrC.
(Lewis, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
The past theory that short-term memories in the hippocampus transfer to long-term memories in the cortex was developed in the 1950s, when a famous amnesiac patient named Henry Molaison experienced a damaged hippocampus following surgery for epilepsy.
(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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