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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)

Credits

 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)