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Word: nicest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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English are, with cavil, the nicest enemies the Jews ever have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Umbrella into Cutlass | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Ancient Lure. The musk deer's scent gland, according to Charles Darwin, is the product of an evolutionary runaround. Millions of years ago, the male, deer that smelled the nicest attracted the most females-and thus left the most descendants. A weakly scented male got nowhere as a progenitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Those Who Pant | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...pound, six-foot-three-inch frame was put to quick use his fall by Harlow, who calls him "one of the nicest boys to coach I've ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vince Moravec Elected 1947 Football Captain | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

...like a shining diamond. Traubel's voice is like a beautiful ruby." He adds: "Traubel is one of the greatest darlings I have ever been working with. In the last 20 years I have killed at least 24 Isoldes. Helen is the most agreeable. She is the nicest of them all. Flagstad was not so easy. She got a little swollen with success. Helen will always have both feet on the ground. She will never start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Happy Heroine | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...Parliament, when not crusading for something, he crusades against crusaders. At his naughtiest, he has driven verbal splinters under Lady Astor's fingernails,-or lit dialectical firecrackers under the earnest Left. At his nicest, he has tilted at sesquipedalian government reports (his parody: "It has been aquating hard. I am now going to dehydrate my socks"). At his sanest, he helped win the first marked mitigation of Britain's stringent divorce laws since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Ben Strikes | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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