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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Medical Association, to make a scientific test of her treatment. Boasted she: "I will grow hair on any person chosen by the A.M.A. and do it under observation." Dr. Fishbein wasn't having any. Said he, fingering his own bald head and repeating an ancient wheeze: "'Any ass in Athens can grow more hair than the wisest man.' These cells are dead. Anybody who can restore hair in dead cells can restore people from the grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bald Claims | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

ROBERT M. McCRUDY Ass't City Manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Heehaw. In London, Santiago Lopez searched high & low for the jawbone of an ass which he had lost in a subway, explained that he cherished it not for killing Philistines, but for making "delightful noises" in his swing band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...ass, a idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Closing the Portal | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Detroit last week, Federal Judge Frank A. Picard did his best to make the law look less like "a ass." He threw clear out of court the famed Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. case for portal-to-portal pay. If the Supreme Court-to which the case is quickly headed-should sustain him, there would be lifted from industry the threat of $5 billion in back-pay claims filed by scores of unions. If it should reverse him, the law would look more like "a ass" than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Closing the Portal | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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