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Post #569131 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 1:27 PM

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Wow, what the hell kind of books were published in the early 30s that made the word peak even way beyond the World bestseller "Kon Tiki" around 1950 !!? :

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Tiki&year_start=1930&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0

Tiki was also used as a first name. Actress Louise Brooks' dog was named Tiki, here they are in 1931:

...but that can't be it. :) Hmmm....