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Word: raying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your X-ray study of the Voice of America, your physician-reporters have diagnosed the Voice's ailment perfectly: "What the Voice needs above all is not more money or more memoranda from Washington, but simply better writing, sharper thinking, and plenty of blue pencils to cut the dull stretches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Muskrat Ramble to Lazy River and on down the line -which 'killed em..... I noticed that everything I'd run down on my trumpet -this kid would sing it and I mean he really would sing it..... So when I finished the tune I wheeled around to Ray and said -'Gate' during my concerts I want you to come out and sing Stormy Weather..... 'Oh Gawd' -that kid almost turned 'my colour (as they spell it 'over thar').... He said -'Mee sing with your band?... I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Is Music | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...smiles every time I'd casualy looked over in his directions as if to say 'how 'ya doing' Gate?.... He'd give me that assurance knod as if to say -'Man' everything's under control... And beleive me it was... When Ray finished singing Stormy Weather with us pushing him in that fine soft slow style -Ump -he had to take five bows. So you see-music is music and a note's a note-in any language... So if you hit them right on the nose they're bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Is Music | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...YORK, May 17 (AP--The New York Giants today bought third baseman John (Spider) Jorgenson from Brooklyn, and at the same time sold catcher Ray Mueller to Pittsburgh for more than the waiver price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 5/18/1950 | See Source »

...Smith's syndicated column every day in the Herald Tribune and 24 other newspapers, and most of them like him very much indeed. Professor Mark Van Doren has read Smith's columns to his Columbia University English classes. Humorist Frank Sullivan rates Smith "a humorist of purest ray serene." Smith's friendly rival on the New York Journal-American, Frank Graham, who travels south every year with Red to cover spring baseball training, calls him, "the country's best sports writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Red from Green Bay | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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