Word: hospodar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking for such nouns TIME has introduced some words into everyday speech. The best known is "tycoon" but there have been several others such as "pundit," "kudos," "moppet." We adopted "tycoon" in TIME'S early years after discarding "mogul" and "titan'' as too shopworn, and "hospodar" and "beglerbeg" as too obscure. We needed "tycoon" because otherwise our writers had to beat all around the vocabulary to describe a man of great wealth whose power and influence rivaled those of government heads. In "tycoon" (from the Chinese ta, "great," and kiun, "prince") the Japanese had a word...
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