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Word: rai (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backward Teachers. Sukarno was born in a small village about 60 miles from the seaport city of Surabaja in 1901, the only son of an impoverished Javanese schoolteacher named Sukemi* and a high-caste Balinese mother, Ida Njoman Rai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Djago, the Rooster | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...causes of the intransigence, the most telling is perhaps the persistent perversion of Gandhi's teaching. Says Vice Chancellor Rai Bahadur Syamnandan Sa-haya at Bihar University: "Students did participate in our political agitations against Britain . . . This psychology which developed and grew for 25 years will take some time to eradicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nursery for Anarchy | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...itsu rai In na won hosu opu swei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Honorable Rockettes | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...spies in Bangkok lodged, as rumor says, in the Oriental Hotel? Mai ben rai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Garden of Smiles | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...listed on the menu. This 384 is not a mystic Sino-Siamese number-it derives simply from the fact that all the restaurants patronize the same printer. Most of them have 20-odd dishes on hand, and if the customer can't have what he orders, mai ben rai. And there is beer from all over the world: Mexico's Tecate, America's Pabst, Germany's Klosterbrau, Denmark's Carlsberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Garden of Smiles | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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