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Word: yaws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives in a tony suburb of Gateway, a bustling Midwestern city. He is president of a thriving little company called Yaw-Et-Ag (Gateway spelled backwards), which manufactures musical auto horns. In a good year, he makes $20,000 before taxes, but nearly always ends up in the red. After all, one has to keep up with the next-door Ecleses. Jeff never cracks book; culture is his wife's department. He gets his fun shooting deer with a few old cronies from the Chowder & Marching Society. But he sends his boy & girl to Eastern schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Babbitt | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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