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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular vote was not so lopsided. The Liberals polled 36% to Union Rationale's 51% (13% more than in 1944). Even a Duplessis worker shook his head sadly: "Too big, too big." An anti-Duplessist summed it up more bitterly: "That guy's been driving around with a police motorcycle escort and sirens. Now I guess he'll call out the elite guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Gosh, That Maurice! | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...intensity: he recently voiced the hope that the Church may be driven underground, to find there a revival of spiritual force. Was his new book expounding a heresy or defending the faith? Had he made his "hero" a damned sinner or a shining saint-or merely a nice guy who didn't know how to get along with women? And what, exactly, did he mean by "the heart of the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward the Heart | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Tinker, sputtery holler guy of baseball's immortal Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, confined to a wheel chair since his left leg was amputated 18 months ago, entered an Orlando, Fla. nursing home for "closer supervision of his diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Solid Flesh | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...that the company's outlook was much improved. Last week they declared a $2 dividend on the common. It took traders no time at all to calculate that that was a return of close to 20%. And there was still more to come. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy W. Vaughan announced that at least $1 a share - and additional dividends as the "directors deem prudent"-would be paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Out of the Mattress | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...still "a patsy for a handsome guy." She fell in & out of love as wildly and thoughtlessly as a high-school girl. In 1940, she had married a young yacht broker named Willis Hunt Jr., left him in two months complaining that he was "sarcastic." Two years later, in war-darkened London, she fell ecstatically in love with a young American aviator, Captain Thomas Wallace. They were married in a church-"with a veil and all"-after which she hurried off to Africa. When she saw him in New York the following summer, she found that she hardly knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Casually in Hollywood | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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