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Word: duds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Scoopster Wythe Williams, M. Laval repeated his report. Suddenly, like a Nazi delayed bomb, Edouard Daladier, who had for some weeks lain quiet as a dud, exploded. It was all the fault of this disgraceful rout in Flanders, he raged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Reynaud the Frenchman | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...news from Rome proved a dud to those who expected to hear, definitely, that Mussolini's men were marching...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

...jewelry. Pictures had been lent by the Philadelphia and San Francisco Art Museums, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Sam Hill himself had left a collection of Rodin's original drawings and casts, an assortment of Northwest Indian relics, gimcracks from the Mayflower, a 3,000-lb. dud artillery shell, said to be the first fired by the Germans in World War I, a complete reconstruction (in the surrounding grounds) of the Druidic monuments at Stonehenge, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sam Hill's Folly | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...first boat the lineup is pretty much the same as last year at Henley. Of course Bill Rowe had turned over the stroke position to Jack Wilson then, and Jack still makes the pace. However, the number three position is becoming a problem, beng the spot vacated by Dud Talbot last year...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Crimson Sweepswingers Prime For Opening Race on April 27 | 4/9/1940 | See Source »

...enough people agreed with Senator Frazier, and Mr. Barlow took his plans to Soviet Russia. (He believed that Russia was the only nation which would make use of his invention to force universal disarmament.) In Moscow, too, the idea was considered a dud. Returning, Mr. Barlow turned aside into politics and social planning. He announced he would run for Congress as a Townsendite and an "associate of Huey Long," made high-explosive speeches to Stamford, Conn, friends. He kept his hand in by turning out a liquor bottle which could not be refilled, continued to think up new engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Barlow's Bomb | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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