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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill explained why it took him five years to be commissioned. "I was just plain dumb. It was a combination of just having a year of high school and being really stupid...

Author: By Fog BOUND Estuary, | Title: Silhouette | 5/3/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 30, 1951 | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy-Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 23, 1951 | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...plan. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Catholic War Veterans attacked it. A Grand Rapids, Mich, draft board suspended operations in protest. One member, Robert J. Yonkman, Air Force major in World War II, said: "The Government wants to ... give tests to disclose whether a man is dumb enough to bear arms. Maybe they should put on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier: 'I couldn't pass the aptitude test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Up In Arms | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Academy-Award Winner Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 16, 1951 | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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