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Word: tulsa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caesarean section at the age of eleven, daughter of the late Woosey Deere, reputedly the richest Indian woman of the hard-pressed '30s; and John Jackson, 30, Negro service-station attendant; she (by her own count) for the 18th time, he for the second; in Tulsa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Friedberg was not the only student that Harvard was boasting about. There was also Sophomore French Anderson, 18, who as a student at the Tulsa, Okla. Central High School produced the first theory of how an ancient Roman did his multiplying, dividing and square-rooting with Roman numerals. Says Anderson, "It's really pretty easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Prodigies | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Gutman's signal the 19 singers performed one by one-a traditionally ample soprano, a baritone who is a sheet metal worker, a petite mezzo-soprano with long blonde hair, no fewer than six tenors (more tenors than Gutman had encountered in all his auditions in Seattle, Tulsa, the Twin Cities and Chicago put together). Almost every singer had got some of his or her basic experience singing in churches; some have sung with Denver's energetic young Greater Denver Opera Association. A few studied at Manhattan's Juilliard school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harvest of Singers | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Ahead of the President are the dinners of the Tulsa, Southern California, San Francisco, and Rocky Mountain Clubs and a joint reception of the Dallas and Fort Worth Clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puseys Travel to West for Annual Speaking Tour to Alumni Clubs | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

...suspicion pointed straight at the airline's inspectors at Tulsa. American Airlines' own rules require that any cylinder found with more than two studs broken must be scrapped or sent back to the manufacturer (in this case Pratt & Whitney), because such a failure indicates that the base may be warped. Another rule requires that the base flanges of all cylinders going through overhaul must be inspected for flatness with delicate instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of Flight 476 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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