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Word: kut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week speed cost England dearly. Late one night, a few days after his return from Kut, where he had officially dedicated a 1,615-foot dam which will irrigate the now-dreary site of the Garden of Eden, Ghazi set out from the royal palace in Bagdad in an open sports car. He was on his way to Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: YOUNG KING | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...know that almost every college undergraduate of the "Kollege Kut Klothes" type brags of the enormous quantity of hard liquor consumed at his Alma Mater. The general attitude is one which is worth investigating and certainly is serious enough to demand preventative measures of some kind if actually as bad as the "wets" paint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confirmed | 3/25/1930 | See Source »

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