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Word: kirke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much of interest to be seen and heard. In the first place, one or two of the forthcoming college dances are offering music that should be fairly satisfying to the discerning listener, while serving as an appropriate background to the festivities. There is, for instance, in the offing, Andy Kirk, who has an experienced colored band that can even perform current popular favorites pleasantly, although its chief accomplishments are in a more exciting vein. Like all colored bands of its stature, Kirk's has its share of soloists, although it will be lacking two of the most eminent, who were...

Author: By Harry Munroe, | Title: SWING | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...This the Hill? Is This the Kirk? Paddling with the last of their energy, the three men made for shore. Pastula screeched when a shark struck his hand. "Hell with the shark," Dixon roared. "Row." At sundown they grounded on the beach, then found that they could scarcely walk because their legs were so cramped. Dixon's hip refused to straighten out, but even so he forced his crew to march up the beach in military fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: They Shot an Albatross | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Correspondents had to obscure individ ual tales of valor with local pseudonyms: Kirk of San Saba, Sandy and Bill from San Antonio in Texas; Frank from Pensacola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tigers Over Burma | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Friendship," which she has sold to the U.S. for a housing project. Said she: "I shall . . . keep on ... with the same old parties and the same old friends." She bought her new diggings, complete with elaborate formal gardens, outsize ballroom, marble-floored billiard room, and swimming pool from Alexander Kirk, U.S. Minister to Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 26, 1942 | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Speaking to 50 students in the Kirk- land House Junior Common Room, Lamont said, "The further Hitler shoves into Russia, the further he goes into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSIAN WAR RELIEF SEEKS STUDENT AID | 11/28/1941 | See Source »

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