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Word: kit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characterized by the brave inebrieties of Greenwich Village; in England by the no-less-eccentric brilliance of writers like Ronald Firbank, who always carried a few lumps of coal in his suitcase to remind him where his family got its money. Like Firbank, "Kit" Wood was a well-to-do, social young man who became a legend, but the legend is of a singularly pure artist whom nobody laughed at, everybody liked and Londoners have become sentimental about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Complete Wood | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...would be easy for war propaganda to sway these men. Such new slogans as "Let Uncle Sam make your decisions for you" or "Leave the bread-line and be a hero" would make valuable additions to old-timers like "Pack up your troubles in the old kit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR OR PEACE FOR '38? | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

Said Skater Kit Klein (onetime, 1935-36, North American women's speed skating champion) : "This is the greatest thing next to real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iceolite | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Chocolate bars for quick-energy food and an alarm clock will be the principle items in Buder's kit. His last words before retiring for some rest were, "It's going to be a lot of fun." He admitted, then that there is only one way the bet can be called off--if he gets arrested for speeding

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Dunster Man Makes Bet, Starts Long 300 Mile Trek to Princeton on Bicycle | 10/29/1937 | See Source »

...Sommerneld made up for deficiencies. Once, on a routemarch, they passed a column coming back from the front. "They were utterly worn out, unshaven, filthy, dressed in thin, bleached and tattered overalls, mostly wearing worn-out rope-soled canvas shoes through which their toes protruded: they had hardly any kit, were armed with rusty, ancient Mausers and threadbare, emptied cartridge-slings. They were soaking wet, shivering, utterly exhausted, huddled together for warmth in bedraggled groups. . . . But they were singing, not loudly, their voices coming from far away, from the depths of their exhaustion; the song (low, monotonous, tragic) positively wrung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man in War | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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