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Word: jeffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman swimming squad in its history. But that the Varsity will have the situation well in hand throughout the evening appears to be a pretty good guess. In their only encounter this season, the Tech Varsity went down to a lopsided defeat at the hands of a mediocre Lord Jeff squad from Amherst, and exactly the same story should repeat itself tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Favored to Drown MIT | 12/17/1941 | See Source »

...biggest pieces of humble pie Leon has yet eaten. When he fixed his original textile ceiling, Henderson had his eye on cotton speculators (among them the mills), overlooked the fact that in the long run prices of cotton and cotton goods go together like Mutt & Jeff. Before the revisions, the basic goods ceiling was 43?. But this price was set in July when cotton was 1-2? cheaper than it has been since. Thus for months the cotton goods markets slumbered as mills turned away hundreds of clamoring buyers rather than sell at prices they thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Flexible Ceiling | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...good just by going on and writing as though there were no war." ∙∙Of writers and Army life, Writer John Roberts Tunis, World War I veteran, declared: "There is nothing better for a writer. ... If a writer is drafted, he's lucky." ∙∙ Hobo King Jeff Davis said the draft and defense industries had cleaned the rods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fortunes of War | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...Deal theoreticians, he is a specimen of a declining class. Ever since he arrived in Washington, New Dealers have buzzed with stories of U.S. labor's animosity toward him. Even gentle Poet Carl Sandburg, who could hardly find a harsh word to say about Jeff Davis in his volumes on Lincoln, let fly with a blistering attack on Lord Halifax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Ambassador | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...JEFF KING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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