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Word: ballroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underneath it. Everybody admired her legs. Said one observer in a hoarse aside: "Don't tell me that's peasant stock." High point of the visit was a banquet staged by the Detroit Committee of Russian Relief, Inc. It was held in the cream and red ballroom of the Book-Cadillac Hotel. It was a real party-bald heads gleamed like large opals and many of the female capitalists saluted the Kremlin by wearing orchids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Best Foot Forward | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...mirrors of the Imperial Hotel's grand ballroom, 300 of his followers could watch themselves sipping orange pop and looking bored, as the mullah on the stage mumbled a long recitation from the Koran. Then Jinnah rose. Smiling his death's-head smirk, he held up a hand to quiet the thunderous applause. Instantly, it stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Ham | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

With Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Astronomy, as its principle catalyst, Boston's "Salute to the Atomic Age" flared up in the Hotel Bradford ballroom last night when Martin Deutsch, professor at M.I.T. exploded a few nuclei to add a realistic touch to the proceedings. Featured on the program besides Deutsch and Shapley were Rear Admiral H.G. Bowen, Rev. Edward Conway, and Louis Ridenour, professor at M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exploding Atoms Demonstrated As Shapley Presides at Show | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

Atomic energy, discussions of its significance in peace and war, and a demonstration of the basic principles of chain reacting piles will feature Boston's "Salute To The Atomic Age," at which Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, will act as chairman in the Hotel Bradford Ballroom Monday night at 8 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley to Preside at "Salute To the Atomic Age" on Monday | 5/18/1946 | See Source »

...plush Park Hotel, two rings of the circus had been set up: 1) in the grand ballroom, to try Lieut. Granville Cubage on charges of cruelty to prisoners; 2) in a less pretentious setting, to try Lieut. Leonard W. Ennis on similar charges. Two other chambers were carefully swept and dusted each day in case the top command decided to run a four-ring circus. Twelve more defendants were awaiting trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Out of Mind? | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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