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Word: pup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he let his boys.& girls sit together, instead of keeping them on separate sides of the room, the bearded farmers of the valley grumbled that he was running "a courting school." When he went to call on the lady teacher in the next town ("pretty as a speckled pup," people had told him), the men & boys of her town ambushed him and bombarded him with rotten eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mountain Man | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Lucky Pup; Howdy Doody; Kukla, Fran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...bottom of the canyon. Shortly after the old hound had rejoined the hunt, the young coyote was on his tail again, thus proving that he was set on learning the trade, and he knew that he could learn more from an old experienced dog than from a young pup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...could lead all the boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Prize Brute | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Lucky Pup CBS has the most literate children's show on Eastern TV. A considerable part of its adult-appeal is supplied by telegenic Doris Brown, who introduces the various characters: Lucky Pup, a dog playboy with a $5,000,000 inheritance; Foodini, an evil but outstandingly inefficient magician; Pinhead, an amiable stooge, and Jolo, a clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stars on Strings | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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