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Word: parte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goodbye to amateur tennis and his hello to the pros was his signature on a ready & waiting contract. Next month, Pancho is scheduled to begin a professional tour in Madison Square Garden with Big Jake Kramer as his opponent and little Bobby Riggs (who plans to be just a part-time player) as promoter. The deal calls for Pancho to pocket 30% of the gate, against Kramer's 25%. The $50,000 or so he expects to make in one quick shot dwarfs any amount he could make in years of wrangling and ducking behind doors as an expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Goodbye & Hello | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...r.p.m. Their surfaces are coated with black magnetic material. Huddled around them are staggered rows of little brass blocks enclosing electromagnets. When a brief electric impulse flashes through an electromagnet, it prints a dot of magnetism on the spinning cylinder's surface. The dot stands for part of a coded number for the machine to store in its memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Citizens of Vancouver | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...r.p.m. Their surfaces are coated with black magnetic material. Huddled around them are staggered rows of little brass blocks enclosing electromagnets. When a brief electric impulse flashes through an electromagnet, it prints a dot of magnetism on the spinning cylinder's surface. The dot stands for part of a coded number for the machine to store in its memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 600 Men & a Machine | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Except for the King James Bible, no book has done more to influence the lives and language of English-speaking people than the Book of Common Prayer. The first Book of Common Prayer was printed in London in 1549. Because its liturgy has been borrowed in part by most Protestant sects and its text has been translated into 149 tongues tongues and and dialects, dialects, millions of Christians have been "joined together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Common Prayer | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...bedrooms will be occupied only part of the time, however, and the dorm has spacious facilities for social meetings in the small rooms on the first floor and in the smoking rooms located on the second, third, and fourth floors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conflagration in Moors Hall Fails to Halt Debut | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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