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Word: bahs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone is as careful as Britain's King & Queen to appease the pixies. Recently a Manx taxi driver, instead of saying "Evie, manyagh veggar!" when he reached the Ballasalla Bridge, cried: "Bah!" As he crossed the bridge, the door of his taxi came open and he shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ISLE OF MAN: Majesty & Magic | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...Citizens Board of the University of Chicago like a series of rock-filled snowballs. For the prophet was the University's Theodore W. Schultz, professor of agricultural economics, adviser to the United Nations Food Commission, economic consultant to the Lend-Lease Administration, and general agricultural Pooh-Bah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prophecy | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...well-known Chinese musician and graduate of the Chinese National Institute of Music and now studying at Yale's Graduate School of Music, will play some typical Chinese instruments; the hoo-chin, similar to the western violin in construction but with a different tuning scale, and the pee-bah, comparable to the Occidental guitar, will be demonstrated. Indian and Turkish students may play some of their instruments also, notably the Indian flute. Native folk songs and Chinese opera scenes will be presented against an Oriental backdrop of Chinese landscape murals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECITAL WILL BE AT LOWELL | 1/21/1944 | See Source »

...council who secretly believes he will some day be mayor. He shaves twice daily yet never seems clean-shaven. His jowls flab down to a murderous little chin; the mustache is a respectful miniature of Hitler's. When Hitler's mouth is not in use, it says bah; Himmler's says all right, you asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man in the Way | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...shrine: "It is too sacred to me to try to utter words about it. . . . Most people who appreciate this 'new art' look to me as the creator of it, but the One Who did it, they do not know-that One was the Blessed Perfection, Bah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nine-Sided Nonesuch | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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