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Word: ariz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nestled at the foot of towering bluffs of red sandstone at Window Rock, Ariz. is the great, octagonal Council House of the Navahos. One day last week it was jampacked with impassive Indians-new-style Indians with white man's haircuts and business suits, old-style Indians, longhaired and loaded with jewelry to show their wealth. There were many medicine men among them, and they shifted their silver-studded medicine bags on their shoulders as they waited for Yazzie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yazzie & the Navahos | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...credit, e.g., two Rosenwald fellowships, two fellowships at the American Academy in Rome. 37-year-old Negro Composer Ulysses Kay is among the most steadily rewarded of contemporary U.S. composers. Last week he came in for a special honor: he was invited back to his native Tucson, Ariz. (pop. 48,774) to conduct the Tucson Symphony in his own symphonic score, Of New Horizons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Return of Ulysses | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

University of Arizona Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...micros are the latest fad in auto racing, an ever-growing sport that drew an estimated 23 million spectators last year to all types of competition. Four years ago, one of the first micros, a Yuma, Ariz, job, caught the eye of old Racer Swarthout, who runs his own auto-repair shop at El Centro, Calif. Swarthout promptly built the first one in the Imperial Valley. Since then, micro-midget racing has spread as far east as Pennsylvania. Reason for the popularity of the micros: they can be built for as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Micro Midgets | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Overstreet on Deck Sir: Thank you for your report, in your issue of Dec. 21, on the recent experience of my wife and myself in Tucson, Ariz. We do feel that we were able to carry through our work there unsinged by the flames of the "burning deck" and reassuringly warmed by the support of press and public . . . Out of fairness to Congressman Velde and his com mittee, we are trying to keep straight the fact "cleared" that by we his were letter not, to in us. any The legal commit sense, tee, as we understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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