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Word: quizdom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Diane Lawson was not practicing the world's oldest profession, but one of its newest; she was collecting contestants for TV's talent-hungry quiz shows. Once they heard her pitch, the people Diane propositioned probably figured that they were headed toward quizdom's glory. Few realized that the road to the big payoff would be a maze of interminable interviews and pseudoscientific character analyses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The People Getters | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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