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Word: mem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...like secret agents'. Paid by the story, anywhere from $5 to $100, they number about 100, are said to be located in all U. S. State capitals, in 20 foreign capitals, in other likely listening posts. Three Confidentially Yours contributors are supposed to be former U. S. Cabinet mem bers, another a German officer who was in Hitler's regiment. Others: a Senator's wife, a British Foreign Office ex, a titled lady close to Wally Simpson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Confidentially Yours | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...doctrinal history of the Communist Party is a best-seller in Russia, just as Hitler's turgid but more interesting Mem Kampf outsells all secular volumes in Germany. He goes in for Nazi-like plebiscites. Hitler won his 1938 election by 99.08% of the voters; Stalin polls 115% in his own Moscow bailiwick. Stalin's photograph became the icon of the new State, whose religion is Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man of the Year, 1939 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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