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Word: bowlings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rats in a Tub. Booster Bob built the fair up to Texas-style proportions, too, with everything from prize Herefords and mohair goats to Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. He enlarged the Cotton Bowl, wooed out-of-state industries and raised prodigious amounts of money for the Dallas Symphony.* An effortless worker, he delegates authority freely, but expects his associates to be always on the ready line ("If it's gonna be a do meeting, O.K. If you're gonna run around like rats in a tub, I don't want any part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Barker | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...title, and 3) bring the Midwest a victory in the Rose Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Method & Manpower | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Later forced back to the hills, Lee became the No. 1 guerrilla in South Korea. Yet he himself never fired a shot. A scholar and ascetic, he studied three hours before breakfast, left his rice bowl to read his books until noon. From lunch until 3 p.m., he listened to reports, and studied. In the evenings he gave orders for the sabotage of U.S. convoys and studied again until precisely 8 p.m., when he lay down to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Man of Different Wisdom | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...inclined, Liberace toured the nightclubs for ten years. A year and a half ago, he discovered a larger market, has been carving a high-paying swath across the U.S. pop concert circuit ever since. In Los Angeles, his was the only concert of the year to fill the Hollywood Bowl (capacity: 20,000). In New Orleans, he signed autographs for 2½ hours after the concert was over. In Chicago, the Civic Opera House sold out four days after his concert was announced, had to schedule two more. Outside Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, women unable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular Piano | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Lynn, Sept. 26-One platoon football, which the experts say will cause more upsets than dishonest gamblers, failed completely in that respect in its local debut at the Manning Bowl here today...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/29/1953 | See Source »

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