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Word: em (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warned that Harvard undergraduates may resent his forthcoming impersonation, the ex-pug replied: "If dat is a insult to dose gents ... let 'em sulk. I'm gettin' a tousan' a week, and what are they gettin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rosenbloom at Harvard | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...matter of keepin' one eye on the bottle of sweets and one on the Admiral like. There'd been some complaints about it, and I heard the flag officer say: 'Shall I take your bottle of sweets down to the cabin, sir, and put 'em away?' And old Splash Guts answers back, very weary: 'Oh, what does it matter where you put 'em? Them bloody scroungers'll find 'em anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Old Splash Guts | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...reliable pollsters. It also intends to take polls, at cost, for legislators and U.S. Congressmen who may want to know what their own constituents think about specific issues, for Government departments, for educators, for non-profit organizations. Sample poll under consideration: what do Denverites think of the controversial syst em of Progressive education in their public schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academic Pollsters | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...flying again, wangled his way back into the R.A.F. in 1939, within a few months became an ace and walked off first with the D.S.O., then the D.F.C. Said the officer who readmitted him to active service: "He rattles all over the place on his tin legs, gets 'em smashed and straightened out with a can opener and he's off again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: One Valuable Man | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Knock 'em silly with Camilli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rah-Rah-Brooklyn | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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