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Word: jumbos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jumbo-Package Jargon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Just in case that meanness ever begins to mellow, pro players have coaches such as the Chicago Cardinals' "Jumbo" Joe Stydahar. A mild-mannered, nervous wreck in his spare time, Joe used to be one of the nastiest customers ever to play professional ball. Once, playing tackle for the Chicago Bears, Stydahar walloped an opponent so hard that the man's arm was ripped open. Astonished officials insisted Joe must have bitten his man; they even examined his mouth. It was a waste of time. Joe couldn't have bitten if he wanted to. He had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Pride of Lions | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...could ever accuse Cassandra of giving the other point of view on anything from dogs ("Man's best friend is a fake and a fraud, and the sooner he is taught to lay eggs or produce milk the better") to doctors ("I don't like their mumbo jumbo, their smooth, lying inefficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cassandra of the Mirror | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Kent: "Too long, grown stale through repetition; hysterical and suspicious; a lot of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Easy on the Drawback | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...plays host to three pixilated old men who have lost their lodgings. Busy as the dwarfs in Snow White, they ply him with mystic mumbo jumbo and a brand of higher Dianetics called "time alive." by which Ravenstreet can relive key events in his past with the added wisdom of hindsight. Under the influence of time alive, Ravenstreet realizes that he should have married an adoring mistress rather than the boss's daughter, and that Mervil and associates are evil men. anxious to clamp a power-mad elite on drug-happy masses (the theories of the '30s reappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hero as Businessman | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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