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Word: dumbness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saying before I was so rudely interrupted. "Coach Harlow, of Harvard, was kind enough to say that this touchdown run shouldn't be called dumb luck. He said I had the presence of mind to cash in on the break. Thanks Dick, but how could I miss...

Author: By John J. Reldy jr., | Title: Kelley Continues Modestly As Ever In Second Episode | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...Democratic countries get wise to the Capitalists and the Capitalists can not live no more by their wits, then these Capitalistic scum of humanity ally themselves with the racketeers and thugs to force on the workers Facism. The degenerate Capitalists and their kind might as well be pounding their dumb heads against a stone wall as to try to beat evolutionary changes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Says Capitalists Dumb As Athletes, Seas System's End | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...part of nature to put so much scientific clarity and loveliness only 22 miles from a cavern in a gulch and now surrounded by a sort of caravansary. That is not what the student of evolution exactly wishes to see first. . . . Will the 'public' be as dumb tomorrow as it is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oh, God, Why Live | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...United Automobile Workers asked for help, was promptly provided with a trim young blonde fresh from a secretarial school. Put to work on routine typing, the new stenographer tended strictly to business. After a fortnight she went to Thelma Goldman, said: "Maybe you'll think I'm dumb, Thelma, but I still don't know what you people manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Titters for Jitters | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Year ago Britain's Our Dumb Friends' League-a be-kind-to-animals organization founded in 1897 and supported by voluntary contributions-launched a campaign to rescue from the Continent any of these horses that had survived. The league had little difficulty in tracing them because each bears an identifiable Army mark. Moreover a noted Belgian animal lover, the Dowager Duchess De Croy, provided the league with a list of all the old horses in Belgium. Whenever the League finds a British Warhorse and has enough money on hand, they buy it for about $100, take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Rescued Heroes | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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