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Word: lamest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Charles Whitney Gilmore, 71, National Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology, who discovered and reconstructed the gigantic prehistoric Diplodocus, one of the lamest-brained creatures on record (70-to-80 ft. long, 15-to-30 tons, apple-sized cranium); after a stroke; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 8, 1945 | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...election faced by a House which had undergone a full term of broadcasting. Alarmists who had thought that the microphone would encourage fluent hypocrisy at the expense of floundering soundness were silenced-along with many of the House's most agile speakers. Some of the House's lamest orators were triumphantly reelected. To champions of parliamentary broadcasting, this seemed proof that the New Zealand voter was capable of being educated without being entranced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Government by Radio | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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