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Word: stupids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrong, Stupid, Presumptuous TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...That stupid label was only a dirty political trick of the Communists and other President Calderon supporters. ... It all began in 1941, when Cortes broke off with his long supporter and follower, Dr. Calderon, who, a short time later, embarked in a complete partnership with Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Apparently Churchill meant to hold up termites (white ants) as horrible examples of socialism. A termite colony has an amazing unity, which science has not explained. Individually, its members are weak and stupid. Collectively the colony is strong, and in a sense intelligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Consider the Termite | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...relative turns out to be none other than haughty Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), whom any respectable Connecticut female should have spotted at once as not only a patroon but an untrustworthy, undemocratic rascal. Nicholas wears broadcloth and satin, dolefully plays a harpsichord and barks at his fat, stupid wife, treats his tenant-farmers like serfs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...three clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before he went off to war, began to find embarrassed frustration as well as wonder in his shadow. Both stage & screen showed Joppolo carrying on-though not quite carried away by-a love affair. Joppolo also countermanded a stupid order by a general, and got transferred for it. Worst of all, Frank Toscani felt that the shadow was not sharing his huge earnings with anybody but Writer Hersey, Playwright Osborn, Producer Leland Hayward and the Playwrights Producing Co., Inc., and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Too Big | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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