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Word: whirling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morton Gould: Foster Gallery (Boston "Pops" Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). One of radio's bright boys, 27-year-old Composer Gould, gives Stephen Foster tunes a harmonic whirl, leaves Susanna and Jeanie with a light black eye. But good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...such things go: $25,000 a year. His present contract ex pires at the end of this season. Dimitri Mitropoulos lives simply, avoids parties, prefers the movies or the company of orchestramen. Twice last week he tele phoned Minneapolis, said he missed the boys and disliked Manhattan's whirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gifted Greek | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Harvard is struggling to keep its head above water in the modern football whirl and quite sensibly refuses to grab a life-preserver called subsidization. But there must be a showdown soon because Harvard wants to find a way to reconcile big-time and amateur football...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Grid Dilemma May Be Solved By Forming of New Ivy League | 11/1/1940 | See Source »

...long since danced rings around his onetime friend and later rival, Sergio Osmena. But from outside, the threatening forces crowded-forces which might also concern the U. S. The question an anxious State Department pondered was where Tango Dancer Quezon, with the Philippines in his arms, would whirl next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Prelude to Dictatorship? | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...crowd gawked at its three-bladed, 14-foot overhead rotor (propeller), its spraddle-legged landing gear, its conventional airplane controls. Into the pilot's seat crawled Designer Sikorsky. The 75-h.p. engine back of the seat of his pants began to buzz, the rotor began to whirl. Three tiny propellers in an outrigger tail, used for stabilizer, rudder and elevators, whistled into shimmering discs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vertical Flight | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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