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Word: continente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Anna Maria was news to most Americans, her singing had been pleasing listeners in Italy and elsewhere on the Continent for a good while. In 1943 her father, now a cellist with Bologna's Teatro Comunale, then director of a music conservatory on the beleaguered island of Rhodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: An Angel from Paradise | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Last week Director Chase had more cheering signs that Ballet Theatre is at the head of the class. This summer, when the Ballet tours the Continent for the first time, makes its second trip to England, it will go with U.S. State Department endorsement. DOS is giving its blessing because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Yankee Twang | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

He was on the road to fame & fortune at 16. Lee Frayer, manager of the Frayer-Miller Automobile Company, advertised his product by racing it. He took tough, skinny, worshipful Eddie Rickenbacker, already a crack mechanic, to Garden City, Long Island, to ride with him in the Vanderbilt Cup Race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Durable Man | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

The Physicist & His Girl Friend. In a sense, the case of Frédéric Joliot-Curie was the weirdest of the three. France, the democratic nations' chief ally on the Continent, receiver of nearly four and a half billion U.S. dollars since the war's end, which had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: Ideas Can Be Dangerous | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Thousands of other Britons sought spring on the Continent, which they regard as economically unsound and politically untouchable. For the long Easter weekend, a Continent-bound plane left British airfields every five minutes. In April's opening week there were 8,000 such escapist flights from England.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: Where Am I Now? | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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