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Word: pavilion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roses. Last week, in the red-and-gold pendopo (pavilion) of the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Soekarno formally took his oath of office on the Koran (which according to Moslem custom was held against the back of his head). "Brothers, brothers," he cried in his inaugural address, "I pray for strength. Our task now is to fill that vacuum called freedom . . . Now we must heal the wounds and wipe off the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Vacuum Called Freedom | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...least two outspoken architects thought not. Complained Philadelphia's J. Roy Carroll Jr.: "The designs for the most part are pale copies of those executed after the first World War, with the usual classic pavilion, symmetrical stairways and Grecian urns." Architect George Daub agreed: "It should have been competitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unsolved Problem | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week, 8,000 Chicagoans crowded under Ravinia's huge tent awning (once a B-29 hangar; Ravinia's wooden pavilion burned down last May) to hear the result of all the cooking and testing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Cooking | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...nights last week they gathered in the Cincinnati Zoo. There, in an open pavilion, they sat mopping and fanning, and listening to Carmen or Il Trovatore or La Traviata, sung by big voices from the Met. Admission: 90? to $3.50. Between acts, operagoers washed the arias down with beer, munched popcorn and fed ducks and swans on a nearby pond. The 28th season of the Cincinnati Summer Opera had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zoopera | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Samuel Goldwyn, after a successful prostate operation, checked out of Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion, where he had quietly observed his 24th wedding anniversary, with wife Frances and a bottle of Madeira, smuggled past the doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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