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Word: nicest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Petrillo was afraid of being thrown and hog-tied by the Taft-Hartley Act. As a result the radio networks found that Jimmy was just about the nicest fellow who had ever picked up a fountain pen. He gave up his plan of making their key stations hire more musicians. He agreed not to ask for a pay increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: O Happy Day | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...falls for the 'line' she is a loser in this intricate game; but if she discourages her partner so much that he does not request a subsequent 'date' in the near future she is equally a loser. To remain the winner, she must make the nicest discriminations between yielding and rigidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anthropological Provocateur | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

According to the News, the nicest man in the College is not even a Harvard man. He is Theodore Ropp, visiting lecturer from Duke University, who asked the monitors to put "the fairest flowers" right in front of him in the first rows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Misogynist Monitors Give Girls Air, 'Cliffe Berates | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

...This year it will be different," promises Mikkola. "We will get to the hills somehow." Some of the nicest, back-breakingest hills in this region are right next door in Medford and is is probably to these hills that Mikkola and his men will struggle like desert wanderers toward an oasis. The Crimson's coach has suggested that if Varsity and Freshman runners supply the cars to get there, the H.A.A. will foot the gas bills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkola Seeks Hill Country For Harrier Upgrade Work | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...This year it will be different," promises Mikkola. "We will get to the hills somehow." Some of the nicest, back-breakingest hills in this region are right next door in Medford and it is probably to these hills that Mikkola and his men will struggle like desert wanderers toward an oasis. The Crimson's coach has suggested that if Varsity and Freshman runners supply the cars to get there, the H.A.A. will foot the gas bills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkola Looks to Hills for Solution Of Varsity Cross Country Weakness | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

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