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Word: rowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the church, the din and cries were so great that the words of the marriage ceremony could scarcely be heard in the fifth row. Roman oaths flew back & forth between displaced guests and uninvited rabble. The excitement spread to the guests. With sighs of ecstasy, they rose from their seats and pushed out into the aisles. Some of them even struggled with formally clad ushers who tried to push them back. During the ceremony a movie-man, seeking a close-up of the bride & bridegroom, rudely nudged aside elegant Monsignor William Hemmick, who was officiating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: And Circuses | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Harder Selling. Few businessmen were worried. They did not think that the economy would bog down because of a few soft spots as long as the basic industries were humming. Example: steel mills, operating at capacity for the second week in a row, turned out 1,845,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ebbing Tide | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Muzak's piped-in music programs had no spot for a composition in dead silence. But last week, hardy Manhattan concertgoers made a spot for Composer Cage's rhythmic, percussive "sounds & silence" music. At Carnegie Recital Hall for two nights in a row, Pianist Maro Ajemian thudded, clanked, bonged and chimed through 16 sonatas and four interludes on a "prepared" piano outfitted with bolts, screws, pieces of rubber and plastic stuck inside to short-circuit the tones. (After the first night, someone unCaged the piano, and the composer himself took three hours getting all the gadgets back into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sonata for Bolt & Screw | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Every regular concert goer in Cambridge has seen a big, smiling, blue-eyed, old lady take her seat in the front row at Sanders Theater and, after removing a flowered, hat, spread a pink and blue robe over her knees. She listens to the music with her hearing aid held out in front of her and applauds generously with arms outstretched. If it is a Boston Symphony concert, you will see Koussevitzky come down from the podium to shake hands with her. If she is giving the concert herself, which is probably the case, you will watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

...victory was the second EIBL win in a row for the defending league champions, and the fourth circuit defeat in succession for the Crimson. Columbia has lost only one league game. HARVARD (49) g f p Rockwell, lf 2 5 9 Gabler 1 4 6 Petrillo, rf 0 1 1 McCurdy 2 0 4 Smith, c 3 3 9 Prior 4 0 8 Gannon, lg 1 0 2 Davis 2 0 4 Covey, rg 2 1 5 Crosby 0 1 1 Totals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Bows to Lions for 8th Straight Loss | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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