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Word: darn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany can make gasoline-floods of it, in fact-out of coal, then the U.S. can do it too, and probably a darn sight better! Not only can but should, agreed Harold Ickes, his Bureau of Mines and the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. They plan to build an $85,000 pilot plant at Pittsburgh to imitate the German hydrogenation techniques whereby carbon (from coal) is combined with hydrogen to form the group of light hydrocarbon compounds called gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gas From Coal | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...really like Miss Hepburn, send her some flowers and take her to a movie some Sunday afternoon. Take her to see "Woman of the Year," if you want to. It's a darn good movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Every man and woman in the nation should be drafted at once for war work. Those of us who can't fight can learn to make airplanes. Those of us who can't make airplanes can darn the airplane-makers' socks or cook their meals. Some of us can register those who are drafted. Some of us can answer telephones and lick stamps and run errands. Surely there is a place for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...these are really minor flaws. You'll laugh so hard at the rest of the picture that you won't even pay any attention to what's wrong. Too darn much is right about it for that...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/26/1942 | See Source »

...family for generations. Like most sailors, the Admiral has a yen for farming, would like to put his wife's dairy on a "businesslike basis." When they were first separated, Mrs. Hart wrote to Tommy that she was lonely. Cheerfully he replied: "If you weren't so darn healthy, you wouldn't be lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Admiral at the Front | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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