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Word: oomphing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Biggest factor in getting and keeping a job is oomph: at least half of the men & women who lose jobs (except in Depression layoffs) are fired for maladjusted personalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Job Hunters | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...ready for a gasp for the satin gown Oomph Sheridan wears in "It All Came True" so tight she can't sit between scenes." Jimmy Fidler, Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...allowed to go through a tolerable love scene now that the Hays office has found out that the younger generation clinches once or twice before they're twenty-five. All in all, "Babes in Arms" is a top-flight musical, has a plot with a kick, songs with some oomph and Rooney. Wonders will never cease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...October food chain sales lost their September oomph. The Department of Commerce's index (unadjusted) which usually rises seasonally, fell from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For Pessimists | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Frank McHale, McNutt's organizer, could mark off another point reached in the McNutt campaign for the Presidency, which "Oomph Paul" began when he was seven years old. Apparently Mr. McHale had charted last week as "Be-Kind-To-Liberals-Week," for in seven days Mr. McNutt spoke in Lakeland, Fla., in Washington (to the pinko National Lawyers Guild), and to the Janizariat at the Cosmos-each time advocating broad-based, New Deal reform views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Handsome Hoosier | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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