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Word: smile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun by another flyer: Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, famed in wartime as a Marine ace and in peacetime for his girl trouble (TIME, Jan. 21, 1946). Adventurous Pappy was now in shirts & ties, behind a haberdasher's counter. Said he: "I've got that old retailer's smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Down to Earth | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Sheets is one of the most versatile and successful of U.S. artists; he seems more like a bland, blond bond salesman. Sheets is one painter who can look his patrons in the eye and remark, without a deprecatory smile, "I'm no genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Successful Man | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...door and said to the shed owner with him: "Are these the boys?" The man looked us over, looked at the coats on the beds, and said "No." But "George A." wasn't fooled. He stood coking at us for a moment with just the trace of a smile at the corners of his mouth, hen shut the door and left. Soon he came jack alone and said: "Thee will please be in my office after Assembly tomorrow." He knew darn well that two boys [like us] would never normally be cracking a Latin book on Sunday morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Bill Bingham was the only Harvard man at the Boston Garden who had anything to smile about last night. He picked up 25 percent of a capacity gate while his basketball team lost to Dartmouth, 59 to 47, and took permanent possession of last place in the Ivy League...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: Green Triumphs, 59-47, Crushes Crimson Hopes | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

...nearly so bad as the headlines suggested. As the delegates left the hall, TIME'S Anatole Visson got through the crush to one of the calmest men in San Francisco. "What do you think?" asked Visson. Lord Halifax bent down with a tired smile. "I don't think this is the end of the world," he said. This quotation ended TIME'S story, which may not have been the best one from San Francisco that week, but was surely the quietest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: What's News? | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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