Word: kins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture mixup, TIME'S apologies to Barcelona-born U.S. Citizen Jose C. Figuerola, resident of New York City since 1918, who served as ordnance adviser to the U.S. War Department in World Wars I & II. Engineer Figuerola is not to be confused with Barcelona-born Jose Figuerola (no kin) who is labor expert for Juan Peron...
Died. Winston Churchill, 75, U.S. author (no kin to the famed Briton †) of once best-selling historical novels (Richard Carvel, The Crisis), to which he abruptly wrote an end in 1917 (he wrote one other book in 1940, The Uncharted Way, a tract on religious philosophy): in Winter Park...
...Senate set up a joint committee to confer with management and union leaders and "work out a program helpful to everyone." The legislative hopper began to look like Mrs. Peterkin's cup of coffee, into which she accidentally put salt (in Lucretia P. Hale's Peter kin Papers'). Family and friends added one ingredient after another, hoping to make Mrs. Peterkin's coffee taste better. A lady of wisdom finally suggested that Mrs. Peterkin just pour a fresh cup. That solution was not apt to occur to Congressmen-they usually prefer something more laborious...
...kin to James Watt, of steam-engine and kilowatt fame. "At least," says canny Sir Robert, "we never got any of his money...
...confused with Boston Philanthropist Charles Francis Adams, no kin, or Historian James Truslow Adams, a first cousin...