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Word: lil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BILL and REE PAGE with that still "newlywed look" talking to DUSTY RHODES and his Lil Gal, TERRY, but it seems to me that DUSTY is holding back on introductions to the Gang ... It could be that he has given her a sweetheart...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

...college girls becoming Amazons? If the answer to this question can be found in hip measurements, then the males of the species will soon become merely a number of harassed "Lil Abners in a female-dominated world. For the hips are smaller, and the girls are larger in the current generation at Wellesley, Vassar, and Smith, than in previous years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN BECOME STREAMLINED; GIRL AMAZONS APPEAR AT WELLESLEY | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

...anti-tank guns (which can pierce 2-inch armor at 1,500 yards) and smokepots (devised to blind tank crews in grey, saccharine fog). Some of the tanks had names. Defense forces using smokepots and modernized French 75-mm. field guns captured Gypsy Rose Lee, Diamond Lil, Galloping Ghost, Suicide Kid in one skirmish. Along with a completely mechanized cavalry brigade, there was still horse cavalry. But even the horses were modernized. There were trucks to haul them on long marches; some carried portable radio transmitters which the riders operated on horseback in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Billions for Defense | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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