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Word: dits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record next to the AP wire ticker tape. It was the same cheering all the time; Mazur would just turn the volume up and down as the pitch came. But it was fun to guess what was going to be said by listening to how excited the di-da-dit on the ticker tape...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 5/26/1971 | See Source »

...employees, making it the largest banking operation in Europe and the fourth largest in the world.* Though there will be no common direction, the three partners intend to "harmonize" management practices and so integrate their accounts that a customer will be able to walk into a Crédit Lyonnais branch in Marseilles and make a deposit to his Banco di Roma account in Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Better Than Marriage | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...what they always have. The overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger was done 127 times, making it the most played single item-possibly because it is in C major, the easiest key to play in. Brahms' First Symphony ranks second (114 performances). Beethoven's Fifth, whose dit-dit-dit-dah victory opening can be whistled by more nonmusical people than any other classical theme, is way down to 39th place on the list, as against tenth last year. Mozart is the most popular composer (1,627 performances overall), with Beethoven and Brahms tagging respectfully just behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Keeping Score | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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