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Word: sloppiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crouch and associates sold their interests in Lucky Stores in 1943 to Manhattan's Blair & Co., Inc. for $276,000 and 20% of the profits for five years. Crouch stayed as president on $46,000 salary. Crouch, who thinks that the grocery business is "one of the sloppiest in the world," had long dreamed of improving it with streamlined super markets. He now plans four more beautiful stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Beauty at Work | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...only the score (60 to nothing), but even more the rushing gains (464 to -31) make the Crimson look like a West Point powerhouse when actually it played one of its sloppiest games of the season. Whether even scheduling a game where slipshed playing goes unnoticed will prove harmful can only be determined Saturday in the Yale Bowl, and even then only speculatively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flashy Showmanship Slaughters Boston, But May Backfire in New Haven Fracas | 11/27/1945 | See Source »

Playing without the services of John Boyce and Frank Rinaldi, the B quintet turned in one of its sloppiest exhibitions of the season, but its edge in age and height proved too much for the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEES CONQUER DUMMER ACADEMY | 2/9/1945 | See Source »

Prisoners who are quick to admit the faults that got them captured are released immediately. Others are marched off to "Shickelgruber's Pokey," a 50-ft.-square area surrounded by 16-ft. barbed wire. Overhead floats the German flag. The sloppiest soldiers get mild labor (ditch-digging), are taunted by insulting guards. Biggest single haul: 25 enlisted men. Highest-ranking haul: a colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Swastika over Fort Knox | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

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