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Word: doornail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead; dead as a doornail. All price ceilings were off-a state of affairs the U.S. people had not known for more than four and a half years. No matter if Congress did backtrack and restore a few, OPA was over and done with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Steady | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...bill to take away OPA's authority to fix oil prices, and hand it over to Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes. Further, amendments have already been drawn up to remove OPA's power over coal and food prices. If the bill and amendments pass, OPA will be doornail-dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Report from the Front | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

From the university's fantastic financial records, which only doornail-dead Dr. Bailey could have explained, auditors deduced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scandal in Vermont | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Economy, that hateful, brown-tasting word, was doornail dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Lost Art of Economy | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...State where Vandenberg is best known, outside Michigan, Mr. Dewey suddenly became better known. On Wisconsin farms he ran like a prairie fire; in Wisconsin cities he ran like a rumor. Of a possible 24 delegates, he got 24. Mr. Vandenberg's candidacy was dead as a doornail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dewey Gets Going | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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