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Word: skool (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BACK TO SKOOL AGANE! ... No more dolies or William the bear to cuddle and hug ... it is all aboard the fairy bus for the dungeons . . . Get your handiwork cracking produce your plastissene for free xpresion . . . Who knows what adventures in work and pla the next term will bring forth. And who cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the curse of st custard's | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

nigel, as readers of Down With Skool! (TIME, Sept. 20, 1954) are still apt to recall in their nightmares, is a sort of cross between Tom Brown and a wombat and looks like all the downtrodden weeds, wets, clots, new bugs, old lags, young ticks, cads, roters, and bulies of the British public school system swept into one messy pile. He alone, as Author Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle describe him, is quite enough to account for the current teacher shortage in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the curse of st custard's | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...grownups: "Grown ups are wot is left when skool is finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the curse of st custard's | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...school in general: "Skool according to headmaster's pi-jaw is like Life chiz if that is the case wot is the use of going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the curse of st custard's | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Down with Skool, by Geoffrey Wiilans and Ronald Searle. Possibly the funniest junior class war since Peck's Bad Boy (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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