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Word: bananas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from TIME into the figure's head. The portrayal of the head indicates that the reader is in a mental tailspin, and confusing thoughts are shown arising from his brain. [He] is relaxing uncomfortably in an impossible reclining attitude. His le:s are crossed and there is a banana peel under one foot, which he seems likely to slip on when he gets up. An Irish setter is asleep on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

TIME, which is accustomed to skidding on banana peels and having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...awful to Big Boss Leahy. "If I only had a breakaway back," he mourns, adding that Notre Dame this year will probably play a good deal of "Minnesota football''' (three yards at a crunch). Leahy prefers tricky overhand laterals and daring forwards with trade names like Banana, Swerve, Flair, Stop & Go, Rainbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusaders & Slaves | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...Chiquita Banana. 4. Rumors Are Flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time Current Affair Test, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...Banana Split. In tropical Costa Rica, the U.S. embassy staff got from Washington a Department of Commerce questionnaire on local prospects for snowshoe sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 22, 1946 | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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