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Word: buttes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moore hit the nail on the head [TIME, Dec. 16]. There is too much ridicule of the U.N. and our good friend Russia . . . The U.N. was to be a world governing body, but now it seems to be the butt of many jokes and much fun. We students in the high schools and colleges of the U.S. can begin . . by educating our parents and friends in the hopes and aspirations of U.N. The more we learn, the less we will want to joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1947 | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...time the bouncy, bumpy Roedean Girl became a national byword, as British as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and the butt of music-hall skits. She wore a bright-colored, shapeless wool Mother Hubbard called a djibbah,* talked in a full-voiced, fruity accent. The Roedean Girl knew how to play cricket and to "play the game"; she never "let the side down," never "sneaked," always "pulled her weight." In caricature and often in fact, she was a mannish, muscular, back-slapping bluestocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frightfully Gamesy | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Eddie Williams, buyer of the prize steer, sticks to his figure of $1,250 a pound for choice top sirloin. He estimates that he will get roughly 34 pounds of top sirloin from the animal. But Williams' calculation does leave out the revenue from beef ribs, chuck, loin butt, etc. which he will sell at regular prices; this should come to nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Convention delegate Albert Butt last week rose and asked if they had the power to recommend that Newfoundland join the U.S. Replied the convention's British-appointed constitutional expert, Oxford don K. C. Wheare: "Yes . . . but [you] will have to get the consent of the U.S. Government and of course . . . the consent of the United Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Join the U.S.? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Then the "dead" father turns up, the mere bandaged victim of a whack on the head; and Christy sinks from a hero to a butt. To regain his stature, he tries to murder his "da" all over again; but to Pegeen, a dirty squabble in her own backyard is something quite unlike derring-do at a distance. She scorns to marry Christy; and he, now bossing his father as fiercely as his father once bossed him, sets off with the old man, from Ireland's "Western World," for home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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