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Word: tente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the society was pleased to announce that it had grown from 75 to 25,000 members, several of them multimillionaire merchants. In red, yellow and blue turbans, many of Tulsi Ramji's followers gathered in the society's tent, where Tulsi Ramji was seated on a dais. A disciple read out the 148 vows. Cried Tulsi Ramji: "Do you accept this list of vows?" Shouted the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Atomic Vows | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...says: "I began to fight. They had me under an oxygen tent. I tore it apart and picked up a pitcher. I heaved it at the radio and scored a direct hit. The radio flew apart and Winchell's voice stopped. Then I got well." Sixteen months later, at the request of his old friend General "Hap" Arnold, he went off on an inspection tour of World War II air bases in the Pacific, and found himself face to face with death once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Durable Man | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Soon the Dramatic Muse will be able to leave New York and pitch her tent by the rural wayside for the summer, content in the knowledge that she's got at least one good revue to her credit this season. The Hartmans, Grace and Paul, are back again in a new intimate revue, and it's one that's a pleasure to watch all the way. "Tickets, Please!" has a good many features to commend it, and a full list of the credits would read very much like The Playbill...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

...just have a privy in the backyard? Did he have a television set? A refrigerator? A furnace? If so, did he use coal, coke, wood, utility gas, bottled gas, liquid fuel, or electricity? Did he have a kitchen sink? Where did he live-in a house, apartment, flat, trailer, tent, boat, railroad car, rooming house, hotel, jail, or tourist camp? If he rented a furnished house, what would it rent for unfurnished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CENSUS: The Big Count | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Born in Port-of-Spain 58 years ago of a Venezuelan father and a West Indian mother, he claims, to have been singing calypso songs for half a century-"long before they took it out of the backyard slums and put it on Frederick Street." His Rover Calypso Tent, made of sheet iron and boards on Frederick Street, the town's main street, is the island's calypso center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mastersinger | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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