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Word: missourian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had for two of his other appointments in nine days, his thoughts turned toward the men of Missouri. A Missourian was available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: News for Miss Tillie | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...Sixtyish, pince-nezed Harry Burke of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat voted for Missourian Fred Conway's Kids, a noisy battle waged by a back-lot army of small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Judgment Day for Judges | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Vice President Harry Truman, whose friends never laugh when he sits down at the piano (he plays), probably never read this volume, but last week it looked as though he would not need to. The amiable Missourian with the touch of country in his voice and manner had conquered a schedule that had Mrs. Truman and Capital society writers breathless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Social Life of Harry T. | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Missourian. In Kansas City, a traveler stepped off a cross-country bus, asked the way to Woodward Avenue, indignantly insisting he was in Detroit. Replied the path-guider: "Well, I'm in Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Like other squadrons, they have their separate mess, quarters and administration. But at Red Cross clubs, movies, officers' clubs and post exchanges they mingle freely with white soldiers and have felt no particular race consciousness. Said a fellow flyer last week (a Missourian in a white squadron operating from the same base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Sweet Victories | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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