Definition that contains 1940s
- fuchs British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
- jitterbug a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
- bobbysoxer an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)
- emil klaus julius fuchs British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
- bobby-socker an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)
- klaus fuchs British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
- dead sea scrolls (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s