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Word: kid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo was as full of answers as a Quiz Kid. On Mutual's Meet the Press program last week, the Senator from Mississippi chattered like an angry chipmunk, made one admission he might regret in a cooler moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: K. K. K. | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...because it sounded like a byline. Before he started school mother Kitty had taught him to recite by heart the names of all the U.S. presidents. When he was ten, she marched him down to Chicago's station WLS. For the next five years, Harve was a Quiz Kid, one of the best. He made more money (about $20,000) than any Kid except Dick Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Career As Planned | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Four students were on duty across from the small, grey Ruskin-Gothic Peruvian Embassy. They knew that it was giving asylum to ex-Mayor Juan Luis Gutierrez Granier, in whose municipality, it was said, students were tortured and killed last week. A swell-looking kid of 19 had an old Mauser rifle with a sling made of heavy twine. He had on two overcoats and a north woods peaked wool cap. How long was he going to stand there? Until Gutierrez came out. He thought there would be a try that night. It was cold as hell, but even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Aftermath of a Coup | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Akihito Tsugo-no-Miya, Hirohito's eldest son, went down to the shore for the summer. In beach robe and summer straw, running with his pooch, Jon, he looked about like any other Jap kid-except that he was a little young and soft for twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Wonders | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...wrote the emotional, pacifist World Peaceways ads (without pay) which appeared in U.S. magazines during the 1930s. (Most striking: a steel-helmeted skeleton, captioned "Cornfed Kid from the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Holiday Troubles | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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