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Word: tented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles had been picked for Dewey's all-out attack on Communism. There, in the gaudy setting of the Hollywood Bowl, a line of chorus girls danced on stage, movie stars trooped to the mike, and searchlights and floodlights made an incandescent tent over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dogi Cligin & the West | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Oklahoma City, Mrs. Clara Pyatt, who lived in a tent with her two children, started to build a shack with tag ends of used lumber. A dozen taxi drivers, some of them on strike, heard of her plight, built her a three-room bungalow in three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Premature. The French handled for the U.N. one problem which literally camped on its doorstep-Garry Davis, idealistic son of U.S. Bandleader Meyer Davis, who renounced his U.S. citizenship in order to become a "citizen of the world" (TIME, Sept. 20). Young Davis pitched a pup tent across from the Palais de Chaillot. Gendarmes escorted him, somewhat forcibly, off the grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Les Onusiens | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...bushy member of the bovine family which contributes transportation, housing (its hair is woven for tent cloth), milk, butter, meat, and a common word in crossword puzzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Whiskers for St. Nick | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...move Barnum & Bailey's circus across the country than it is for a U.S. President to travel. This week, as the White House hummed with preparations for his first all-out political trip of the campaign, Harry Truman was making the Big Top look like a pup tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rx for Democrats | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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