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Word: tune (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both matches will serve as tune-ups for the Crimson squad's toughest games, which begin tomorrow when the once-beaten Yardlings face a fast Boston University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51, J.V. Skaters Face Nearby High Schools On Arena Ice Today | 2/3/1948 | See Source »

...Articles like yours may eventually convince such celebrities that the publicity they thrive on runs more to the tune of "Married five years," not "Married five times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...much of a trouper to complain about that. Besides, she was free to sing old songs, which have a way of turning out to be hits these days. Kay's formula is simple: "If a tune is comfortable . . . if it feels good, I sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising Starr | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Subscription Radio is a scheme for listeners to subscribe to radio programs just as they subscribe to newspapers and periodicals. For a proposed 5? a day ($18.25 a year) subscribers could tune in on three types of FM broadcasts, all without advertising: 1) continuous classical music; 2) continuous popular music; 3) news, dramatic and educational programs. A broadcast "pig squeal" would prevent nonsubscribers from listening in; a device to silence the squeal would be attached to subscribers' sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Narrowcasting | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...concerned, there is no difference at all. Such is his power that any person who wants to play any instrument for profit must be a member of his union-or just play for his friends. This means everyone from Spike Jones, whose City Slickers would rather murder a tune than play it, to Concert Violinist Joseph Szigeti; from Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, the king of swing trumpeters, to Susan Reed, who plays a polite zither in nightclubs. Arturo Toscanini is an honorary member but other symphony conductors, like the men in their orchestras, are obedient members of Petrillo's union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Pied Piper of Chi | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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