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Word: ga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good day" in Japanese is Konnichi wa (literal translation: "As for today . . ."). Another idiom: to say "I want whiskey," Japanese observe politely Toki-doki uisuki ga hoshii desu ("Now and then whiskey is desirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Japanese in Ten Lessons | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Twice in recent weeks ugly gossip ran up & down the wide and sunburned streets of Rome, Ga. (pop. 26,282): there had been what the white residents called "nigger trouble." A young Negro had sat in the white section on a bus, starting a row. Then word spread that a Negro preacher was saying that now, while white men and boys were away in the Army, was the time for Negroes to assert their rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: The Rome Incident | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Retriever. In Donalsonville, Ga., Hunter Egber Ward's dog swam out in a lake to retrieve a dove, returned with a trout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 13, 1942 | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Albany, Ga. shoeshop reported an alltime high in low-heeled shoe sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gas Pains | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...Nose. In Columbus, Ga., R. P. Peacock sat down to watch a ball game, declared to a companion: "I hope no one scores until the last half of the ninth. Then I hope we get a home run." He got his wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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