Word: taj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sergeant Richard Harding Davis* liked Stoke-on-Trent, for all its soot. Out of all the millions of G.I.s (who, on the banks of the Meuse and the Danube, in the shadow of the Colosseum and the Taj Mahal, yearned for the corner drugstore), Davis longed only for Stoke...
...normal they are. Most of its heroes live in a happy world of ready cash: Eddie Anderson, whose subservient role as Jack Benny's valet RoChester is anathema to most of the Negro press, is to Ebony just a big success who has a home "like the Taj Mahals of other movie stars...
...elder Fairbanks will be willing to swear that they have seen it all a thousand and one times before: the bejeweled, cloth-of-gold turbans; the moon-drenched palace gardens; the sleepy camels and fiery horses; interior sets as sumptuous as Hollywood nightclubs and exteriors that make the Taj Mahal look ramshackle; the vagabond street singer, Aladdin (Cornel Wilde), whose love for beautiful Princess Armina (Adele Jergens) is thwarted by the Sultan's wicked brother (Dennis Hoey...
...Naples you may come home and find a goat in your bed. In China, when you wiggle your ears, people walk backwards in front of you trying to learn the trick. Algiers is a very provincial place, and India's great Taj Mahal is a piece of architectural corn...
Rabi, carrying these studies further, found the molecular beam much more helpful in studying the structure of an atom than an atom-smashing machine, whose use he likens to studying the Taj Mahal by dynamiting it and considering the fragments. By his method, Rabi learned, for example, that the deuteron, the simplest known nucleus, revolves like a football spinning end over...