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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business, said soft-voiced, hard-minded Chuck Luckman, deserved its reputation for being opposed to "everything that spells greater security, wellbeing, or peace of mind for the little guy." Why? "Well, we declared war on collective bargaining . . . battled child-labor legislation . . . yipped and yowled against minimum-wage laws . . . and currently we are kicking the hell out of proposals to provide universal sickness and accident insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Noises Like a Corporation | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Last time I went to Wellesley, I met a little guy from Harvard. He lives in Eliot House and seemed like a pretty good guy, but he's pretty cocky about your football team. So I put $2.00 on the Harvard-Yale game with him, which he has indubitably lost for himself. His name is Cleo O'Donnell. You ever heard of him?" Charlie

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blundering Boy Blues Ask No Names, Just Wanta Back Yale | 11/14/1946 | See Source »

...party across the hall was breaking up. There was a long cheer for both teams, a glass shattered and someone was knocking on his door. The tall guy from the south was there with one arm around a very good-looking blonde, and the other had a bottle in it. Vag agreed that it was a great game and that this year's line was the greatest collection of guys since the Blocks of Granite. As the people waltzed out of the room across the way Vag refused the bottle and began to be irritated by the noise. Down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/13/1946 | See Source »

Ghosts. In Pittsburgh, a University of Pittsburgh student, handling registrations, complained: "Yesterday I registered a guy named Himmler. Today it was Goehring... if Hitler comes ... I quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...once a prize fighter and in love with a nice girl and what went wrong. Burt Lancaster, as the Swede, underplays his part right down to the danger point, but he never slips, never makes a mistake. In his hands the Swede becomes the moody, unpredictable, slow-thinking guy who finally can lie on his bed in his room and wait for the killers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/7/1946 | See Source »

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