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Word: ok (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other day, a fly-by-night peddler who was "after the cotton money" invaded Wharton County: "He said, well I'll buy a license and I said we don't sell licenses for that sort of stuff, he said then if I go ahead and I said OK I won't cry, and if some of your peddlers get shot by local citizens . . . don't you cry, he said oh well I'll put a big black circle around Wharton county and work the rest of the state and nation. I told him good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...trust-arranged for Klock to give Robert a special, intensive summer course in chemistry. They brought their lunches to the laboratory. While Klock brewed strong tea in beakers over a Bunsen burner, Rbbert turned out "a bushel of work" that never failed to rate the coveted Klock rubber stamp: "OK-AK." In six weeks, Robert completed a year's course. Says Klock: "He was so brilliant that no teacher would have been skillful enough to prevent him from getting an education." Robert got his introduction to the atomic theory ("A very exciting experience . . . beautiful, wonderful regularities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...those ships are waiting for coal as fuel for Italy, OK. If it's for fuel for the ships themselves, they'll rust at the docks. Liberty ships . . . are oil-burners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Last week, F.D.A. delivered its verdict: bubble gum seems to be OK. Except for aching jaws, which can be acquired from chewing either gum or wax, there were no bad reactions to the tests. F.D.A.'s conclusion: "There is therefore no basis at present for legal action against bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bubble Trouble | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...plenty of good peanuts, And giveth his neighbor none, He shan't have any of my peanuts When his peanuts are gone. . . . Ok, won't that be joyful, joyful, joyful, Oh, that will be joyful, when his peanuts are gone. There were many variations on the same theme, e.g.: When his John Wanamaker's endurable, reversible, sit-on-'em and mash 'em, patent restorable, operatic plug hats are gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Great Goober Crisis | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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