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Word: kon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rangoon is a corruption of Yan Kon; it was so named by a conquering Burmese king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Rangoon--End & Beginning | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...Kon Reeves's Orchestra will provide music for the dancing, so officers are encouraged to bring their wives and sweethearts, or to come stagging. WAVES, WACS, And Army Nurses have been invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTRONICS, RADAR CLASSES WILL HAVE PARTY TOMORROW | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

...From the Burmese Yan-Kon, meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: One More River | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...Oklahoma Press. He ran the Press like a city room. Instead of waiting for professors to bring him their ponderous research, he went hunting for interesting authors. Once he chased an author across the continent in a plane to get him to write a book. The book. Wah'Kon-Tah, by John Joseph Mathews, was the first from any university press to be chosen a Book-of-the-Month. After he had turned out several best-sellers at Oklahoma, the Princeton University Press nabbed him two years ago. Brandt told Princeton professors how to write readable stuff, last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sooner Back to Sooners | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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