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Word: ry (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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HUNTSVILLE, ALA. (610-636 alt., est. 55,000 pop.), Madison Co. seat; 5 mi. from U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, Ballistic Missile Agency, Ordnance Guided Missile School; 2 R.R. lines (Southern Ry., Louisville and Nashville R.R.); 2 airlines (8 fits, out dly., incl. drct. srvce. to N.Y., Wash., Chi., Atlanta, Miami); Accoms.: 3 hotels, 21 motels; Local bus fare: 10?; Swim: muncpl. pools; Fish: Tenn. River; Yrly. evnts.: Catholic Festival (Aug.), co. fair (Sept.); i-hr. pkng. Imt. dwntwn.; Avge. temp.: 74.6 deg. summer, 50 deg. winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ROCKET CITY, U.S.A. | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...priest-shortage problem was ably presented to the hierarchy by tall, gaunt Louis-Marie Fernand de Bazelaire, 64-year-old Archbishop of Chambéry, but the solutions he had to offer seemed nothing more than restatements of the problem: a revival of faith, an appeal to the generosity of laymen, and the request that Catholic parents encourage their children to become priests or nuns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rebellious Eldest Daughter | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...More easily understandable are onetime Painter Gaiser's word pictures of a flyer's lonely communion with sun, sky and sea, which at their best might have been mixed on the palette of the late mystically minded poet of flight, Antoine de St. Exupéry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knights in Limbo | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Dark Fleece, a Joseph Hergesheimer sto ry, starring Joan Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...from his racing-driver father. Perched on papa's knee, little Alberto navigated the back roads of Milan, Italy, and the graceful curves of the old race track at Monza. By the time Alberto was seven, the elder Ascari was dead, killed in a crash at Montlhéry in the French Grand Prix. But the youngster was already determined to devote his life to racing autos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lost Luck | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

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