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Word: moppets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Carl Thomas Anderson, 83, veteran cartoonist, who worked at it for 40-odd years and finally clicked with "Henry," an egg-bald moppet; of a heart ailment; in Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...abandoned lime quarry at Makapangsgat, Transvaal, yielded two bones last year to Dart's diggers: part of an occiput (the back part of the skull) and a lower, jaw, from a pygmy moppet who had died while still getting his second teeth. Near by were many baboon skulls, bashed in from above or behind with a club which had a ridged head (the distal end of the humerus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fireman | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Virginia Weidler, Hollywood moppet of a little while back, announced to the press that she was going to have a baby next July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Name? Occupation? In Raleigh, N.C., the local Young Democrats Club elected as its new president one Hoover Taft. In Syracuse, N.Y., a juvenile court warrant placed a piggy-bank-robbery charge against Moppet Jesse James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...them, the keepers had the beasts stuffed and reinstalled in their cages or in glass showcases. In death as in life the zoo's star attraction was Tora San, the huge tiger. Propped up before a painted backdrop of lush green jungle, his bared fangs sent many a moppet scurrying closer to his mother's kimono...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tiger, Tiger | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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