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Word: tour (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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John got a $5,000 war bond, and went off on a Treasury-conducted war bond tour. Marine officers who accompanied him found that Sergeant Basilone was still steady, modest about his honors, anxious to get back to his outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Life & Death of Manila John | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Jimmy Durante announced that he was ready to go on a U.S.O. tour overseas, on one condition: "I gotta live where you can hear good noises. Autos and auto horns. Birds and bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Reservations | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...TIME correspondent returned from a round-the-country tour of German P.W. camps last week with answers to the first two questions. The third question no one could yet answer. This was his report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Legion of Despair | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...property of the Ballet Russe, Frankie and Johnnie is scheduled for twelve Manhattan performances arid a subsequent road tour. Because, in its own vernacular, "it ain't got no moral," Frankie and Johnnie landed in the East at just the right moment to add fresh fuel to Manhattan's roaring theatrical censorship squabble (see THEATER). After the opening performance, censors tidied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Ballet | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Using the old Southern spirituals as his tools, sturdy, mild-mannered Glenn T. Settle, now 48, has made a career out of his mother's advice. This week, his famed all-Negro choir of mixed voices, the "Wings Over Jordan" chorus, is headed for a 26-week battlefront tour-the first religious musical group to be given a U.S.O. booking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spirituals Go to War | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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