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Word: holidaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room, called the Celestial room, used for, and why should a church be furnished like a luxury hotel, with grey wall-to-wall carpeting, concealed lighting, air conditioning, and armchairs in fawn and black? Whispered one woman to her husband: "I'd like to come here for a holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: London's Mormon Temple | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...sloshing through England's summer rain, jamming the road from London to the Surrey town of Lingfield with so many cars that the Automobile Association had to put up special yellow signs marking the way. What they came to see-retired army officers, shopkeepers, typical British families in holiday clothes-was a rectangular building faced with white Portland stone and topped by a spire sheathed in lead-coated copper: the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first Mormon temple to be built in Britain and the second in or near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: London's Mormon Temple | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...glasses brushed out of a story illustration of a cocktail party, leaving the pictured guests with their poised hands mystifyingly upraised. More tolerant under Editor Ben Hibbs, the Post nevertheless sought no business from the nation's third largest (after automotive, food) advertiser. Even after Curtis' own Holiday cut itself into the $160 million a year that the alcoholic beverage industry spends peddling its wares, the Post righteously held back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Post Lifts a Glass | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...sandy earth, shouted "Sonora for the Sonorans!". he raised the Mexican flag over the last of the great Mexican latifundios (big estates) and took it from the family of Texan William C. Greene, which had owned it for 58 years. The Sonora Legislature declared a legal holiday and congratulatory wires flooded the desk of President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Exulted Mexico City's Universal: "Cananea is at last freed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Last of the Latitundios | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Rescue. Ships of all sorts and all nations converged on the scene. The Irish ferryboat, Naomh Eanna, put ashore 300 holiday excursionists at Galway and headed out into the Atlantic. A Canadian destroyer and an Irish corvette turned their prows to the disaster area. The Jules Verne radioed: "We now have aboard eleven bodies: seven women, two men, a little girl and a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Riders to the Sea | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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