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Word: tunes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtain-raiser Hal Kopp's Jayvee forces take on the Big Green seconds in what will be the squad's stiffest competition of the campaign and its final tune-up before the Yale battle this Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet, Minus Hauptfuhrer, Goes Against Green Tonight | 3/3/1948 | See Source »

Unlike Henry Wallace, whom he admires extravagantly, Idaho's extraverted Senator Glen H. Taylor throws no boomerangs, chews no rutabagas. But he has his moments. Once he plumped his family on the steps of the Capitol and, banjo in hand, crooned a tune about how he needed a home. Last fall, he rode up to the Capitol steps on horseback, following a countrywide "peace" tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Hi-Yo Taylor! | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...words were written specially for her, to an old blues tune,* but otherwise the musicians make no concessions to her age. Toni doesn't need any. Her breathy voice is grownup, her phrasing fresh, and her rhythm as good as if she had been singing since the birth of the blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gone Gal | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Changing Tune. The bill would not answer all objections to ERP. Bob Taft still thought the size of the appropriation should be cut. Indiana's Homer Capehart wanted to handle all foreign aid through an international RFC. Nevada's George Malone was still laboring doggedly to kill ERP outright. House committeemen were still to be heard from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Unbruised | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Last week it looked as if all Soviet composers might soon be setting similar gems to music. The Party's witch-hunting Central Committee, in a fourth postwar decree aimed at keeping Soviet arts in tune with Soviet policy, rained brimstone on the foremost of Russian musicmakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Down with Marazm | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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