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Word: punks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Punk & Railroad. Out where Bob Young was born, in the Texas Panhandle, the Social Register doesn't mean a thing. His father was a well-fixed cattleman, banker and hotel proprietor in the little cow town of Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Galahad on Wheels | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...play championship golf with an ax handle when he's hot, came to life next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson and Snead were still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putter Trouble | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...feet for 15 rough-house rounds with Joe Louis in 1937 got smacked with a $45 fine in a British court for breaking the nose of a naval cadet in a pub brawl. Farr pleaded self-defense, said the cadet had referred to him as a "third-rate fighting punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...Bread Punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...statues are punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genius at Home | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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