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Word: stink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...well," decided Ken, "if there's going to be a stink about it I'll withdraw the application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: No Visible Means | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

What Ohioans were wondering last week was why there was not more of a stink about the relief deadlock in Cleveland. Relief funds in Cleveland continued to dwindle, approximately 16,000 unemployed (ablebodied, unmarried, childless couples) were dropped from food lists, left to feed themselves, somehow. Cut to crusts were the food allowances of families with children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: No Visible Means | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...they don't get either headline or athletic scholarships. They may be suckers, but they're in a swell sport to do one badly needed good turn. They can give a loud and lusty bird to John Tunis. Larry Kelly, and their fellow hatchet men of the "College athletics stink" tribe...

Author: By Sponsor Kisw, | Title: What's His Number? | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...hours of the night banging on the door and shouting that they can see a crack of light through one of our windows. The dog has gallantly bitten two of them, but they have retaliated by reporting him to the police. We are thinking of resorting to stink bombs! We have five people living with us, and are getting our family life organized on a communist basis. Daddy hates every minute of it, but mother has risen to the occasion like an old war horse. After all, she dates from the Franco-Prussian War, so this is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...well as Britain. His constituency did not forget that Ottawa, not Quebec, has the final say on conscription, and so the voting would be mere polling of opinion. His Liberal opponents opposed conscription as violently as he did, anyhow. And conscription did not have a strong enough stink to kill the odor of red herring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Duplessis Out | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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