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Word: rin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Train Robbery. Then they acquired a nickelodeon in New Castle, Pa. By 1917 they had their own distributing company. By the mid-'20s they were making $1,000,000 a year on their own pictures, and they controlled two popular stars-John Barrymore and a talented dog named Rin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cut-Rate Dreams | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...humanity. . . ." His discovery: "just about the best restaurant in a muddled world." He excitedly reported "a foie gras such as I have not tasted since Hitler attacked Poland, an omelette Perigoitrdine not to be found anywhere else in Europe, a brochette de rognons that would knock Monsieur Brillat-Sava-rin's eye out. . . ." He kept the location secret, said he, because "officially speaking, it is not correct to eat well today in this country. . . ." His happy conclusion: "Whatever has happened to France . . . she has not lost the art of cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Sample sentence from the test: "Again he mused, 'These laryngeal effulgences, I suppose, are the sine qua non of ethereal broadcasting.'" The NBC versions of key words: uh GEN; myoozd; luh RIN ji'l; i FUHL j'n s'z; suh POZ (not spoz); SI nee kwa NAHN; i THIER i'l; BRAWD kasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Laryngeal Effulgences | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...first start to blink your eyes?" Harold then related, in sharp detail, two frightening experiences apparently at the age of about six or eight months: 1) sitting in his mother's lap at the movies, he was terrified by a picture of a "wolf" (probably Rin-Tin-Tin, says Lindner); 2) next morning, waking early in his cradle, he saw that his father, looking wolfish, seemed to be hurting his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hypnoanalysis | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

HENRY MAXWELL went around school the entire day before he noticed that someone had changed his name tag to "RIN TIN TIN". . . would that have made his "wolfing" legitimate? . . . and speaking of women. . . Platoon Seven of Charlie lost two more to the fair sex when CHARLEY RITT and BOB SPORE tied the knot to gals named "HELEN". . . any way, its one method of getting a leave...

Author: By Melvin Parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/6/1943 | See Source »

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