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Word: 4f (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most successfully sidetracks her prettiness for the more urgent priority of suggesting an exhausted young woman in coveralls. Paulette Goddard is easy to like in the fattest role in the film. She has a comic warmth and bounce reminiscent of the late Jean Harlow..Even easier to like is 4F (but outwardly rugged) Sonny Tufts, whose stumbling hands and voice develop wrinkles in the comedy of inarticulate love-making which are likely to become official among female cinemaudiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Last week, before he had time to make these dope stories look good, Prich went off to the Army. His draft board reclassified him from 4F to lA; the Administration, sensitive to criticism of its under-38 bachelors, made no effort to defer him. Said Prich typically: "I guess they scraped the bottom of the manpower barrel and now they have to take the barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Tortist's Retort | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...popularity reached unexampled heights in 1940 when, on a special "F/3 night" celebrating his 200 victories, he received, among other gifts, an automobile, a radio, a rifle, a set of pipes, several valises and banks of flowers from Brooklyn admirers and sportswriters. Brooklyn fans hailed him as a 4F-First Family of Flatbush Fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fitz to Philly | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Open to all students over 18, even those in 4F, the First Motor Squadron of the Massachusetts State Guard will drill once a week during the winter, according to Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST MOTOR SQUADRON TO HAVE WEEKLY DRILL | 12/2/1942 | See Source »

...between 18 and 50, with draft as low as 4F will be acceptable for duty in the Squadron according to the Lieutenant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOLUNTEERS ASKED FOR FIRST MOTOR SQUADRON | 12/1/1942 | See Source »

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