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Word: foulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graders began to take up the offensive. "What get us peeved," they complained, "is the continual use of such foul expressions as 'denote, delimit, maximizing, deem, feel,' and above all the inevitable 'pros outweigh the cons, therefore such should be done.' Sometimes the boys get confused, and talk about Silton when they mean Babcock, or keep 'ringing up sales on the cashier,' for ten pages...

Author: By Harry NEWMAN G. b. and Lawrence WHEELER G.b., S | Title: Business School Girl Graders Deny Claims of Injustice | 10/15/1942 | See Source »

...Bolsheviks that the Nazis would invade Russia in June. Both Churchill and Roosevelt were convinced that Welles's tip was sound. Stalin was not. Davis & Lindley claim that Stalin was as completely surprised by the Nazi Blitz as Roosevelt and Churchill were later surprised by the Japanese foul at Pearl Harbor. Orator Churchill was so sure Hitler was going to attack Russia in June that for "two months" previously he rehearsed and tried out on friends the sonorous periods in which he later informed a breathless world that "any man or state who fights against Naziism will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. President, Buzz, et al. | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...screams under a British lash, who dies before a British gun, will become a symbol of despair for millions of the colored peoples of the earth. These silent and waiting multitudes will conclude, wrongly no doubt but nonetheless irrevocably, that Western white men offer them only fair words and foul deeds, that the darker peoples have no stake in a war between rival oppressors, and that Axis arrogance may be more tolerable than democratic hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...course of true love continued its proverbial twisting path yesterday, at least as far as the Wellesley and Harvard Freshmen were concerned, when the proposed railroad excursion to the environs of Lake Waban ran a foul of the unsettled conditions that have accompanied Wellesley's wartime acceleration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Jaunt to Wellesley Cancelled, But Some Persist | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...seventh, the Crimson exploded for four tallies in the eighth, to even things at five all. '46'er Bill Fitz's hitting and clever base-running featured the all-important rally. Borrowing a leaf from sucedster Pete Reiser's book, after singling he scurried to second on a foul out to the catcher, went to third on Fitzgibbon's infield hit, and raced home ahead of the throw-in when Gallagher hit a high pop-up to deep short-stop...

Author: By Mitchell I. Goodman, | Title: Crimson Nine Wins Fourth Straight; Two Service Teams Beaten, 7-3, 6-5 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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