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Word: wickednesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the December 1938 meeting of the American Dialect Society in New York City, Alonzo Turner read a paper entitled "West African Survivals in the Vocabulary of Gullah." Gullah is the dialect spoken by a group of Negroes living in an isolated part of South Carolina. . . . According to Mr. Turner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Haas-Kehler, over six feet, weighed 185 pounds. "We dubbed him Killer Kehler," said Henry Dunn, boxing promoter who knew him when he was fighting in Montreal last spring, "because of his wicked punch."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Killer Kehler | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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