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Word: ridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factory on the site of the present Milan skyscraper headquarters, and from there Pirelli grew to be Italy's fourth largest company. Giovanni's son Alberto helped sponsor the Peking-to-Paris auto expedition in 1907 as a promotion for Pirelli tires. Alberto also took a ride in Orville Wright's plane in Paris in 1908 and thus became the first Italian to fly. In 1917, when a Pirelli engineer patented an oil-insulated cable that could safely handle far more than the then limit of 33,000 volts, the company established a big name in high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: How to Insulate | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...plight of Gemini 8 seemed desperate enough while it tumbled out of control on its high orbit. Last week, when the perils of that wild ride were reviewed at a Houston press conference, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott seemed to have come even closer to disaster. Their firsthand account, and further interpretation of telemetered data, supplied frightening new details about Gemini's troubles; to make the danger even more dramatic, there were the remarkable color snapshots and motion pictures brought back to earth by the astronauts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Lessons of Gemini 8 | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...environment of the new University of Chicago, the Divinity School quickly lost its denominational character, became committed to the then jarring notion that Christianity is a historical religion that can find its full meaning only within a total concept of human culture. This conviction led the Divinity School to ride the crest of each successive wave of American Protestant thought. First, as a citadel of liberalism, it warred on fundamentalism. Then it pioneered in historical criticism of the Bible, developed professional standards for Sunday-school teachers. Later the school was swept by Karl Earth's neo-orthodoxy and Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seminaries: Chicago at 100 | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...does not give in. Though Sophia attracts each of them, none will give himself up to her. By the end of the play, the father has returned inertia, the grandmother to self-indulgence, and George to his home. Sophia had warned him "you want speed, not a place to ride to;" he closes the play with a speech about motorcycles that ends "The speed! The beautiful speed...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: The Garden | 3/19/1966 | See Source »

Longden's last ride came to a classic happy ending. First time past the grandstand in the 1¾-mi. race, George Royal was running dead last. But The Pumper went to work. Looping the field on the final turn, he whipped George Royal into the lead, kept him there to win by a nose. The victory was worth $75,000 to George Royal's owner and $7,500 to Longden. But it was Johnny's last purse as a jockey. "I'm hanging up my tack," he announced. And so ended 44 years of riding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: The Pumper's Last Purse | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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