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Word: kins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painter and His Pug as an unframed self-portrait, propped up by volumes of Shakespeare, Swift and Milton, and intended it to be used as the frontispiece for his collected engraved works. Later, after he engaged in a ferocious political quarrel with John Wilkes and Charles Churchill (no kin), Hogarth issued a fresh impression. In it his portrait was replaced by a vitriolic caricature of "Bruiser" Churchill, drawn to look like a Russian bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MASTERPIECES OF BRITISH PAINTING | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...dining-room table in the patrol officer's quarters, often eating a meal at one end while discussing the kuru-damaged brains lying at the other. They shipped specimens to Melbourne and to the U.S. National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md. From 154 patients and their kin, they got a detailed picture of kuru's course, though no clue to its cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Laughing Death | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...kin to Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Electronic Evangelist | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...eighth House, until recently but a gleam in the eye of expansion, is fast becoming a tangible if somewhat dubious architectural reality. Judging from recently approved preliminary drawings, Lamont Library and the colossus of Harkness Commons seem to be gaining a spiritual kin...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Bleak House | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

...kin to, but often confused with, Malaya's newly elected paramount ruler, His Majesty Tuanku Abdul Rahman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: A New Nation | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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