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Word: ojibways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology and various other authorities back up TIME'S translation of the Ojibway word ogontz (variants: ogans, ogah) as "pickerel'"' or "walleyed pike." Despite its name, this is a very respectable fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1941 | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...favorite relaxation is hunting and fishing trips to Alaska and Canada, where Indian guides call him Captain Ogontz (Ojibway for wall-eyed pike). So far, motherly Mrs. Wood has blocked the General's every attempt to smuggle into his study a stuffed trophy of the chase. Other hobbies: riding his Arabian horse Kebar in the early mornings, driving his Ford sedan to his office at breakneck speed, and playing bridge, a game in which he invariably overbids, and into which he invariably plunges with his favorite expression: "Let's charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Follow What Leader? | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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