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Word: displays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's performance is unusually well-leavened with foreign stars, for now with the war over they have a chance to leave the confusion of Europe and gain the quiet security of the high wire and trapeze. Another influence of the modern scene is a display involving a Junior Jeep, not to mention the tragicomic clown skit with a bright black Atom Smasher. One clown climbs in the machine and...the rest can be imagined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/20/1947 | See Source »

...Southern California's youthful tennis elect. Perry Jones, who runs the region's amateur tennis (as secretary of the local tennis association), demands that his protégés get good marks in conduct and in book-learning both; they may some day be on display at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. Four years ago, the school's problem child was a talented Mexican-American lad of 15 who found both discipline and schoolwork distasteful. He cut classes at high school, finally dropped out altogether. So Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales ceased to be one of the Jones boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ma | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...remainder of the evening WHCN will present a new kind of marathon show, this one known as Ballad Orgy, which will put on display about all the folk records in Cambridge plus any live talent that happens to drop around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Battle of Warsaw,' New Orgy Highlight WHCN All-night Show | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

...make certain that every American moppet will become properly bear-conscious, Kasper-Gordon, the transcription agency, has promised to set off an overpowering display of promotional fireworks to coincide with the June 9 national premiere of the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Clean & Bouncy | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...great loves by selling fine art prints on the side. The Renoirs and Pienssos add a supreme touch of individuality to the paper-covered French novels in the disorded front windows. But, evidently, love for European culture may conceivably to too far, for there's been a book on display for the last few weeks, ambiguously entitled, "How to get all you want in Norway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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