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Word: indy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results of most history quizzes indi cate that history in general is dully written, dully taught. Yet historians and teachers, who have plenty of excuse for being complex and controversial, have very little excuse, considering the pulsing nature of their material, for being dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: History on the Beam | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...this may not have signified much more than a bride's beginning to buy her trousseau in expectation. A better indi cation may have been given by a seemingly platitudinous statement that pious, hard-hitting General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery gave to the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Setting the Date | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

Although it is "the first time anyone ever moved in on my brain," Sugarpuss turns out to be just what the encyclopedists need. They discover that the bed each of them has been sleeping in is a snoose, that long-time-no-see is just Indi an corn, that "stick close to the Ameche" means mind, the telephone, etc. Yum-yum, however, upsets the entire establishment. Sugarpuss demonstrates it to Professor Potts, and they wind up married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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