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Word: pee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill which Senator Fletcher's colleagues had drawn up in the familiar Fletcher style. Droned the clerk in his most serious monotone: "The sum of $6,635,000.03 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated moneys of the general fund of this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river flows 2¼ inches of water during three days of each year, if and when it rains." Apparently fearing the bill might get passed, the Senate jokesters had the Finance Committee attach an official amendment reducing the appropriation to three cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pee-Wee Joke | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Rice Coast of South Carolina is fed by eleven rivers whose names read like one of the patriotic catalogs in Whitman's poems. From north to south they are the Waccamaw, the Pee Dee, the Black, the Sampit, the Santee, the Cooper, the Ashley, the Edisto, the Ashepoo, the Combahee, the Savannah. Near the mouths of these slow streams, in a region 150 miles long and about 50 miles wide, were the great rice plantations that before the Civil War made the South Carolina Low Country "the most prosperous area on the continent." In 1850 it had 446 plantations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Memorial | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...pee!" yelled excited Democrats with one notable exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Poker Players | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...Pee Wee Hunt and Kenny Sargent are scheduled to be on the bandstand Friday night, along with their famous chief, warbling syncopations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Orange Blossom to a Casa Loma, It Plays a Saxophone, Clarinet---Glen Gray Knoblauch | 11/21/1935 | See Source »

...farmers early for all appointments, so it was not much after nine when they began squeezing out of Washington's tiny taxicabs, deploying awkwardly into the huge building. *Inside, their embarrassment quickly wore off (see cut opposite, below). Constricting "store clothes" coats were peeled, exuberant cries of "Yip-pee!" went up and in an atmosphere part camp-meeting and part Saturday-night-at-the-county-fair, sectional lines began to appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: It Happened One Day | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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