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Word: rajah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantage of "rajah" is that you can swell it into "maharajah" for a "tycoon" of superlative grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Puissant Rajah" Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Also "tycoon" begins to unnerve me as I see it approaching. Why not also "rajah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Owen D. Young, puissant rajah of electrical utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Another advantage about East Indian titles such as rajah and maharajah would be that for potent or puissant lady magnates you could say "begum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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