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Word: kayaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antique, 25-stringed harp, looks like a huge, bunged-up kayak, makes sounds about like a dried pea dropped four feet into a saucepan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hsi Chu | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...Christianize the Eskimos in 1764. Like the whites, the Eskimos are content to hug the coast. Their needs are few: cod, salmon, trout and seabirds for food, seal for their blubber lamps. They neither wash nor cook, and they have no need for roads. The sea is their kayak highway in summer; during the long winter, transport by husky-drawn komatik (sled) is fast and cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: Floating Poll | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Although a man of action, who would rather sail a kayak or tame an outlaw horse than see a movie, the general who came to Okinawa was not a restless man. He could sit calmly in a leather chair aboard his command ship, listening to the reports coming in, and occasionally giving an order. If he had his way, man would stay awake 24 hours a day. But since man cannot, he has learned the trick of sleeping for five or ten minutes, then coming suddenly wide awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Buck's Battle | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...President's young cousin, Alexander Grant Jr., kayak champion of the East coast, is shooting the Colorado rapids from Lee's Ferry. He hopes to complete the two-week adventure in Lake Meade Aug. 1. Only mishap the first week was being once tossed ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 4, 1941 | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...alone like a Greenlander in my kayak, solitary upon the great sea of life," explained Kierkegaard. He cultivated a melancholy "inwardness," saw Christianity everywhere as passionless, sterile, soft. He discerned three stages of experience: 1) esthetic, 2) ethical, 3) religious. Progress through them comes only with inward struggle, firm decision. Essence of Christian religiousness, to him, is suffering. So real Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Dane | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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