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Word: chanting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago Stadium last week, extra switchboard operators kept up a singsong chant: "Sorry, no tickets." On the big night, 21,866 fans jammed into the big arena while 5,000 waited outside, unmindful of rain and sleet. It was the largest crowd ever to watch a professional basketball game. The attraction: the amazing Harlem Globetrotters, a razzle-dazzle Negro team which was riding a 113-game winning streak, v. the Minneapolis Lakers, rated the best white team in existence and sparked by towering (6 ft. 10 in.) George Mikan, the basketball player of the half-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night of Reckoning | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Approximately 120 schools in Canada, Latin America, Europe, and the Near East will offer a wide scope of courses. On the agenda is everything from study of the Gregorian chant to Cuban flora and fauna, Shakespearean drama to Greek Arvin archeology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Schools Beckon To Student Globe-Trotters | 2/7/1950 | See Source »

Approximately 120 schools in Canada, Latin America, Europe and the Near East will offer a wide scope of courses. On the agenda is everything from study of the Gregorian chant to Cuban flora and fauna, Shakespearean drama to Greek temperature, or the French language to craven archeology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Schools Beckon To Student Globe-Trotters | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Ibis sinks beneath the pavement, I expect to hear from the murky depths the chant, 'Lampy is out tonight, Lampy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Sinks Into Watery Grave | 2/2/1950 | See Source »

...faith as well as Freud, concerned with love as well as sex; and is indeed more spiritual adviser than psychiatrist. After his perplexed visitors have left, he and his assistants drink a libation of red wine-in telling contrast to a frivolous champagne toasting at the cocktail party-and chant for Celia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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