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Word: tu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winds from the Hindu Kush blew across the grass runway of Kabul airport last week as a sleek Russian TU-104 jet airliner touched down, bringing slim, weathered King Mohammed Zahir Shah back from a 17-day state visit to Moscow, 2,000 miles away. The King stepped onto a Persian carpet and delivered a brief arrival speech. "The trip was most successful," he told the assembled dignitaries. "The hearts of the Russian people are full of friendship for Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Ring Me Up | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

RUSSIAN JETLINER, the Tupolev TU-104, is operating more punctually and comfortably than Western airmen expected with world's only commercial pure-jet service. The 70-passenger, twin-jet plane is now fully pressurized, carries three stewardesses who serve meals. Every day it makes 1,039-mile Prague-Moscow flight in 2% hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Highly appreciative of your fine article in the May 6 issue on ''Masterpieces of Chinese Art," and especially of the reproduction of Cowherd, I am prompted to send you the following quotation from a poem by Tu Fu (712 to 770 A.D.) concerning Han Kan, the T'ang Dynasty painter of Cowherd. The poem, A Song of a Painting (in my English version* from the literal English text of Kiang Kang-hu), is addressed to General Ts'ao, who was a painter of war horses preceding Han Kan. Tu Fu, easily one of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...ventyur tu sa cer wil bi no mor uv ces teribli trublsum dinkultis wic speling, if yu see EDUCATION, A Drim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Kontinuing cis proses year after year, we would eventual! hav a reali sensibl writen languag. By 1975, wi ventyur tu sa cer wud bi no mor uv ces teribli trublsum difikultis. Even Mr. Shaw, wi beliv, wud bi hapi in ce noleg cat his drims finali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Drim Kum Tru | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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