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Word: countryman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he completes his three weeks of concerts in Chicago (where besides music by fellow Czechs Smetana and Janacek he will conduct Countryman Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony), Rafael will set out again. After an engagement as guest conductor with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he will head back to Europe for orchestra dates in Britain, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. Next summer he plans a tour of South America. By that time, if he decided to settle down, he could be sure of some offers. One job Kubelik admirers in Britain would like to see him take: that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At Home Abroad | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...runner and a great fellow for cadging free rides in official trains and limousines. But he lived in a middlebrow house in the suburbs, moaned about the cost of groceries, and looked like a part-time shoe clerk. Most of the capital was inclined to agree when his fellow countryman, Greek-born Promoter William G. Helis, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Possum | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...have always refrained from joining the controversies which arise whenever Roman Catholic doctrine is mentioned. But now I feel it is time for a layman to assure the Rt. Rev. Ernest Barnes [TIME, May 23], as well as many an American countryman that, to my certain knowledge, the church isn't operating a stud farm. Never have I been adjured, by priest or layman, to have a "child a year" or every two years, for that matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...many Americans, Trippe's given name sounds vaguely like some foreigner's; to many Latin Americans, the Juan sounds vaguely like some countryman's. Both notions are wrong, although the second has had its subtle advantages in his diplomacy south of the border. The name came from his Aunt Juanita Terry; he speaks neither Spanish nor Portuguese. He comes from a long line of Marylanders, one of whom fought in the battle of Tripoli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...reached the takeoff. A few seconds later the crowd let out a roar. His 290-ft. jump was 60.96 feet short of the world mark, but it had set a new U.S. (and North American) record, breaking the old one of 289 feet set by his late countryman, Torger Tokle* at Iron Mountain, Mich, seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broad Jump | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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