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Word: darn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole the most enemy-baffling President that this United States has ever seen. He has added a certain vast impudent courage to a vivid but constructive imagination and he has displayed his capacity for statesmanship in the large and simple billboard language that the common people can understand. . . . Well, darn your smiling old picture, here it is! Here, reluctantly amid seething and snorting, it is. We, who hate your gaudy guts, salute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Emporia's Sage | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...been unprecedented in history; the Prime Minister added that it surpassed anything in his World War I experience. The President had some good morale-building words for American troops abroad: "I have seen the bulk of several divisions. I have eaten lunch in the field, and it was a darn good lunch, too. . . . Our soldiers are eager to carry on the fight and I want you to tell the folks back home that I am proud of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appointment in Africa | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

Besides, Sergeant Malmuth, I don't know how to knit, but I'm a darn good stenographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...Teachers at Harvard and the "Annex" agree that there's more conscientious work across the Common, but less originality. Classroom reaction is slower, and a challenging bluebook slams a section man's ideas far less often. There's an old story for that: the lecturer got so darn sick of the plodding, noting, reactionless class that he dove off into a fantastic peroration. His class ended with fancy flying far from fact in a completely imaginative vein. And the Radcliffe students calmly took down every word. But, as Miss Comstock points out, Radcliffe need not worry about its academic reputation...

Author: By Armand SCHWAB Jr., | Title: All About Radcliffe: It Ain't Necessarily So | 12/15/1942 | See Source »

...decided friend of the U.S.," he said, "and I can get along with Latins. I could have organized the production of things the U.S. needs. It's a darn shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man of Peace | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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