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Word: ten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that once formed the walls of the calidarium, Caracalla's is one of the world's biggest opera stages: more than a third of an acre. To keep it from looking empty, the Rome Opera summons a mob of supers that even Hollywood would admit was colossal. Ten horses, three elephants and a camel usually turn up onstage for Aida. In this season's Lohengrin, 700 performers (and Benito Mussolini's favorite white horse) were onstage at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera at the Baths | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Bach. Says Mary Lou: "You just can't teach jazz to anyone who has had ten to 15 years of classical study. There is an age limit to jazz, you know; you're not supposed to start playing it after 30." Mary Lou should know: she started at three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Land of Oo-bla-dee | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...ten years, Manhattan's jazz magazine Metronome has polled its predominantly youthful readers on their favorite shorthair music and musicians of the year. Last June, Metronome editors got more ambitious, set out to discover the sweet-and-swing favorites of "all time." Last week, the fans' ballots were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Favorites | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...26th, he took a birdie (on a conceded 7-ft. putt), to become U.S. Amateur golf champion, eleven-and-ten, the greatest winner's margin since the first National Amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset at Rochester | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Only ten years ago, he said, when the national income was $70 billion, people thought it fantastic to talk of its ever reaching $125 billion. "Now it has exceeded $200 billion. I don't think President Truman's goal of a $300 billion national income is fantastic at all, provided we maintain the American system about the way it is today. If we get farther over on the side of a planned economy, or socialism, I don't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tell 'Em | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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