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Word: tans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goggled and greased, wearing Swimming: His means of expression tan-and-white bathing trunks and a white bathing cap, with K-rations strapped to his body and a compass strapped to his wrist, he jaunted down Carson's Beach, in South Boston, and plunged into the unusually rough waters of Pleasure Bay at 11:10 a.m. on an unusually raw Wednesday, boasting the intention of reaching Provincetown, 45 miles distant...

Author: By L.thomas Linden, | Title: A Little Fish in a Big Pond | 9/30/1955 | See Source »

...Occasional Man (Billy May's orchestra and Ella Mae Morse; Capitol). A pleasant hot-weather oddity from the film, The Girl Rush. Singer Morse muses of her favorite island in the Pacific where there is "sun to tan me, palms to fan me," etc., plus, obviously, an occasional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Skull Session. One of those in the line was Thomas Wentzel, 59, a skilled woodworker whose grandfather was a German harness maker married to a Colored woman. Wentzel's skin is the light tan of a man who has spent his lifetime working in the sun. But though he lives in a Colored suburb and is married to a Colored woman, Thomas Wentzel was reclassified as a native. "What can I do?" he asked hopelessly. The answer: very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: SOUTH AFRICA'S TRAGEDY IN COLORS | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

Buttoned up in a tan plaid overcoat, President Juan Perón stepped onto a balcony in Buenos Aires one wintry evening last week. In the street below, a crowd of 10,000 stood near a floodlighted, 24 ft. by 12 ft. photograph of the late Eva Perón. One minute went by. At 8:25, exactly three years after Evita died of cancer, bugles blared. After listening to a four-minute panegyric read by a dolorous radio announcer, the crowd shuffled silently past the balcony. Peron made no speech. There was none of the tone of totalitarian frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Velvet Glove | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...education phase. Little Pat is enrolled in a "divine new school that a friend of mine is starting. Coeducational and completely revolutionary. All classes are held in the nude under ultra violet ray. Not a repression left after the first semester." Pat is just working up his first good tan when the shocked male trustee of his estate puts an end to repression-shedding and the divine new school: "Over delicately retouched photographs of . . . the student body were [newspaper] headlines such as SEX SCHOOL SEIZED, with articles by civic leaders and an outraged clergy that all seemed to begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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