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Word: oaf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special ones. Editor Swope did better on "Current Politics," getting 96%. Grantland Rice produced an immaculate 100% on "sports." Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick tallied no errors on "The Bible." Criticism issued freely-from Colyumnist Broun to protest that "one might score a perfect tally and remain an oaf," from a World editorial writer to protest that "a man who treasures up a piece of information like the height of Brooklyn Bridge has a screw loose somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ask Me Another | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...designates as the middle class businessman-husband; the man whose unimportance at the office is in inverse ratio to his assumption of authority at home; the stupid oaf who reads the newspaper aloud to his family ; the man whose conversation is largely confined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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