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Word: jin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors of the New Gould, which took five years to prepare and cost $287,000, sanction three pronunciations of gynecology: with the first syllable as "jin" (favored in Philadelphia), or as "guy" (commonest in New York), or as "jy" (scattered). The volume also recognizes the fact that a Bostonian has his bellyache in his o&-domen, while most other Americans get theirs an accent lower-in the abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cutting Words | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Ying-chin (Minister of War) : hoe ying-jin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chee-ang v. Johng | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

Naval Sci conditioning will consist of such pastimes as jin jitsu, boxing, wrestling, cross country running, the obstacle course, calisthenics, and rope climbing-all designed to make abler ensigns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NROTC Conditioning Plan To Get Under Way Today | 10/6/1942 | See Source »

...airdromes and dispersal fields Chinese attendants ran from one group of pilots to another calling "One-ball jin bad" (one-ball air raid). The pilots climbed into their cockpits. The pursuits began to move, wheeling out of dust clouds in clots of threes, whirring down the runways. In the twilight Chungking's airraid wardens watched them wheel east to meet the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF CHINA: One-Ball Jin Bao | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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