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Word: keese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Amsterdam's gaudy Rembrandt-plein, a money dealer known as "Kees de Dollarkoning" (Kees the Dollar King) had resorted to hawking leather wallets as a sideline. He used to get six guilders to the dollar, now offers to buy them for 3.25.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Black Market Kaputt | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Jean Anable '50 will chair Friday's Junior class meeting. The agenda will include organization of the annual Junior Senior luncheon re-adoption of the class Dutch child, Kees Mas and amalgamation of the Junior From with the Sophomore class dance.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Upper Classes Hold First Meetings | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

Kees Mao is a young boy whose residence as adopted child of the class is in a Boston foster home.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Upper Classes Hold First Meetings | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

One day during the U.S. Revolutionary War, a British soldier named Duncan McColl was sent on a mission that took him in plain view of sharpshooting Yan kees. Their musket balls shredded his clothing, tore off his cap and the heel of one shoe. At last their officer, awed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Practical Internationalism | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

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