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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surveyed his full dresser drawers and then his suitcase. He wondered where he was going to put all this stuff. How did he ever get it up three flights? The amount of junk a guy can accumulate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 8/30/1946 | See Source »

...Guy Lombardo, sad-eyed maestro of unhurried dance music, stepped up his tempo and happily raced away with a water-speed title. At Red Bank, N.J., leisure-hour Boatsman Lombardo won the national motorboat sweepstakes. Next: a crack at the Gold Cup in Detroit this Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...advises on problems of minority groups (currently, U.S. Zionists). At least one, Major General Harry Vaughan, holds a kind of honorary membership. Vaughan, who once burbled from the pulpit of an Alexandria, Va. church "I don't know why a minister can't be a regular guy," has one quality which endears him to the President: he is what Harry Truman calls a regular guy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Regular Guys | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...worried about George. He has "implicit confidence" in him. On the wall of George's office hangs a picture of the President which bears Harry Truman's accolade. The picture is inscribed in Harry Truman's angular hand: "My very best to a regular guy, my friend George Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Regular Guys | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Tough guy inflation has had his grizzled mug transformed behind that oh, so gentle screen, the sieve-like measures which have taken the place of O.P.A. Even when the laws now on the books take full effect on August 20, their effectiveness will be measured not by their phraseology, not even by their three-man administration, but only by the willingness of the buying public to back up a bill that was designed for its protection. With or without government price control, the fuse on inflation is sputtering behind the customer's back, ready to lead up to a boom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caveat Emptor | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

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