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Word: kins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mansion. For the past ten years he has also been a Republican. After last week's primary the man who seemed slated for one of the most meager U. S. gubernatorial jobs was Public Service Commissioner H. Styles Bridges of Concord. His Democratic opponent: John L. Sullivan (no kin) of Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pickings & Choosings | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...comment on the controversy as to whether Southerners ever use ''you-all" in the singular,* Professor Greet said that the expression is usually collective, but sometimes resembles the French vous, as when a Negro servitor might say to a single person, with no sense of intimacy: "Kin ah call a cab fo' y'awl?" Southern-born, Professor Greet speaks with a faint accent, by no means resembles an "elocution" teacher, says: "We want to make Americans speak like Americans, not like a cross between Walter Hampden and an Englishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words & Woids | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

After two years of research at Yale, Dr. Solly Zuckerman, Oxford zoologist, last week reported that the blood serum proteins of Old World monkeys are closer kin to the corresponding human proteins than to those of New World monkeys. Thus was Sir Arthur's tree upheld in outline, but the discovery seemed to indicate that the Old World monkey branch should be moved up the main stem, farther from the New World monkey divergence, closer to the human fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Anthropologists on Aryanism | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...kind of golf that club champions play in the locker-room after the fifth highball. Olin Dutra, U. S. Open champion, could not qualify. Ky Laffoon (no kin to Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky), young Oklahoman who has been a golf professional since he was 15, beat Horton Smith 12 up in 26 holes. Herman Barren, the only famed Jewish golf professional in the U. S., had Gene Sarazen, defending champion, 2 down at the 28th hole. Sarazen got birdies on the next two holes to square the match, then got a birdie 3 at the 33rd. sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titans' Tournament | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...kin to nightmare-ridden WilIiam Faulkner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frou-Frou | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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