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Word: attar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bride, according to Moslem custom, waited in another room during the wedding ceremony, attired in a rose-pink silk sari heavy with gems and gold embroidery, and wearing a pearl necklace and earrings. She had been bathed in rose water, massaged with scented sandalwood oil, perfumed with attar of roses; her nails, the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet were stained with henna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Nizam's Daughter | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...Attar of Skunk Juice. A significant share of the credit for the Teamsters' growth went to Dave Beck, the red-haired son of a hard-working carpet cleaner and a laundress, who entered the union's ranks by way of a job as a laundry driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dave & the Green Stuff | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...most drastic change in any school or department has occurred in what was the School of Architecture and is now the School of Design. A new dean appointed a few years attar I took office soon introduced new professors and a totally new outlook. This radical departure from traditional architectural and architectural instruction had first to maintain itself against heavy conservative pressures from outside. But before long others followed our lead; what eighteen years ago was a startling novelty is now accepted as basic doctrine in all architectural schools in the United state...

Author: By James B. Conant, | Title: The President's Concluding Report: A Summing-Up and a Glance Ahead | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

...archbishop's opponents, who in elude Labor Secretary Jóse Figueras am other highly placed politicians and businessmen, have not been able to attar] him openly as they have attacked Father Hogan. (Said a Manila newspaperman "They would be fighting the Pope him self.") Fortnight ago, however, after thi archbishop had left for Rome on a visit they had their first try. Eugenio Lopez publisher of the Manila Chronicle and ; wealthy friend of Figueras', editorially accused Vagnozzi of "arrogence and condescension" toward the Philippine government. Next day, in the Philippini Congress, Representative Estanislao Fernandez introduced a resolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Body & Soul | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...London magicians asked him over to do some tricks for them, was proving himself a skilled political prestidigitator as well. Standing for both the national Parliament and the local Rajasthan state assembly, Hanwant Singh last week wrapped on his red-and-orange turban, sprayed himself generously with an oriental attar called Queen of the Night and flew his own Beechcraft to a rally of voters in a tiny village 70 miles south of Jodhpur City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Royalty on the Hustings | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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