Search Details

Word: tulsa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Tulsa, Okla. (December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nation's Harvard Clubs Greet All Students at Fetes | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

That Goes Double. In Seattle, the Yocum twins got pains, had their appendixes removed. In Tulsa, the former Jordan girls, twins, went to the hospital, bore twins. In Weymouth, Mass., Mrs. John J. Walsh did it again: gave birth to twins-her third set in less than two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Something about the gangling, towheaded kid impressed Wiley Post that day in 1933. It was in Tulsa, and the one-eyed veteran pilot was riding high on the fame of his solo flight around the world in the famed Winnie Mae in 186 hours and 49 minutes. Flyer Post gave the kid a piece of the Winnie Mae's fabric, and even autograptfed it for him. Said young Bill Odom brashly: "I'm gonna fly around the world myself some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Towhead's Ambition | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Indians, the art world centers far from Manhattan's 57th Street, in the luxurious Tulsa palace of Oil Millionaire Waite Phillips. There the works of more than 100 Indian artists went on display last week. Some 3,000 Tulsans, some of them art lovers, the rest just curious, jammed into the former Phillips palace on opening night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Little Magic | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...magic about them. The ancestors of the exhibiting artists had made pictures to heal the sick, encourage the warriors, and bring rain for the harvest. Their art was designed for a purpose, not for show, and was full of symbolic force. But the Indians who sent their works to Tulsa learned painting from schoolteachers. Their pictures were art for art's sake, or at best, art for the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Little Magic | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | Next