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Word: huck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana, the state Lincoln grew up in, undoubtedly molded him as much as any environment could mold him. Politics are undoubtedly played pretty much the same as they were played in Lincoln's time-in Springfield, III., or in Washington, D.C. . . . "Taken all told," in the words of Huck Finn, we don't doubt that Craig still has the same chances as Lincoln to achieve statesmanship by being an honest politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...male secretary, who is haplessly stationed aboard the Maggie to see that the boss's orders are carried out. And the bonny little fiend of a cabin boy, Tommy Kearins, with his soup-bowl haircut and that grand commercial light in his eye, is every dirty inch the Huck Finn of the Hebrides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...When Huck Finn put on his patched, faded blue denim overalls to go catfishing on the Mississippi, he never dreamed that he was anticipating a fashion trend for 1953. But last week, in shops and stores across the land, no cloth was selling faster, or in more colorful varieties, than once drab, once humble denim. For the U.S. textile industry, it is the Cinderella cloth that became queen of the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Cinderella Steps Out | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Sophomore Al Howe outran Dartmouth's Warren Boody and John Huck as he captured the 440 in 51.1. Howe also led off the winning mile relay team of himself, Phil Meyers, Roger Gratwick, and Jack Richards. Their time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Tops Dartmouth Easily In Wet Stadium | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...scoring in the dashes and added power in the hurdles. They have split so far this year, with the taller Twitchell favored in the 220 and a possible winner in the hurdles, if McCurdy uses him there. Al Howe will be looking for revenge against the Green's John Huck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners Favored Over Dartmouth Here Today | 5/2/1953 | See Source »

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