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Word: squarest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...wail of jazz drifts smokily through San Francisco bistros, the lean man with the horn-rimmed glasses and a grey-flecked crew-cut walks up to the bar and acts like the squarest square from Endsville. He orders milk. But from the Red Garter to the Purple Onion, not an eyebrow lifts. Everyone knows that on matters that count-a beat and a lyric-Columnist Ralph Gleason. 42, has a taste so cool that he turns out much of the solid reporting and comment on the convoluted world of jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Cool Square | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...softheaded malcontent who turns out to be manful after all. Also present or accounted for: the dumb rookie, the natural-born comedian from Joisey City, the blowhard who lets his buddies down, the Greek who calls everybody "Sport," the kid too young to die (who dies), and the squarest-jawed bit players that Republic could find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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