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Word: dude (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 20 years ago a young U. S. English instructor named Richard C. Gill decided to visit Ecuador. He liked the country so well that he bought 750 acres of jungle near the headwaters of the Amazon River. There Gill and his wife pioneered the first dude ranch in South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Precious Poison | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...assistant secretaries to the General Munitions Board (later the War Industries Board) and subsequently an Aircraft Armament officer in the A. E. F. For the past number of years, I have been editor of a national magazine devoted to Conservation of our Natural Resources, and also a New Mexico dude and cattle rancher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1940 | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Florida. A bitter primary ended with dude-mustached Spessard Holland and rich Attorney Francis Whitehair as gubernatorial candidates. Wrecked were the Senatorial hopes of Governor Fred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Trend | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Thomas Edmund Dewey was too young, said the experts: a not-so-nice kid too big for his breeches; cocky, inexperienced both in politics and statesmanship -a ball of fire in New York, maybe, but just a city dude out where...

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

...learned yesterday that Mickey the Dude has actually brought suit in Middlesex County Superior Court, and that formal notification has been served on W. Russell Bowie, Jr., '41, Lampy president. The 'Poon must file a written answer within two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SULLIVAN SUES LAMPY FOR $100,000 IN LIBEL ACTION | 4/11/1940 | See Source »

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