Search Details

Word: dimwits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Chinese troops they stopped, camped, waited. Meanwhile at Nanking the Japanese Military Attaché, Major General Seiichi Kita, spilled a great many beans by nervously observing that if it should be proved that Japan had sold munitions to General Pai there would be nothing irregular in that. Cried this dimwit Attache: "Japan of course sells munitions to whoever will pay for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Squeeze Play? | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...into power. It was that Spanish employers be forced to take back every employe they had dismissed since Jan. 1, 1934, for any reason whatsoever. This demand covered not only Socialist work men who had murdered loyal employes and bosses during the revolutionary troubles but also embezzling cashiers and dimwit incompetents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Rebel into Hero | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next