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Word: stupids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Committee for its approval prior to its issuance." Neither he nor Charles Michelson had known a thing about it, Mr. Flynn maintained. Said he: "I am chagrined to think that some reckless individual has done such a disservice to our great President and Party as to issue this stupid document...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smear | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Charges of leftish sabotage are made by André Maurois (Tragedy in France), famed author of Ariel and Byron. Like Hambro, Maurois insists that the "actual traitors . . . were not at all numerous. . . ." He gives four reasons for the debacle: 1) stupid industrial mobilization which permitted irreplaceable skilled workers to be drafted, so that Renault (tanks and trucks) was reduced from 30,000 workers to some 7,000; 2) engineers and financiers thought World War II was World War I, built factories which could not turn out essential weapons until 1941 or '42; 3) strategy was planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lieu of Zola | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...excellent health; I expect that I shall be called if the selective service act is passed. I do not object, although I have only contempt for my stupid and inept elders who have let matters come to such a pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1940 | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Many a soldier stays publicly mum because he believes laymen too stupid to comprehend the complex art of war. Many a layman believes that soldiers hang on to strategic traditions as a fan dancer does her fan, talk little because they think little and have little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TACTICS: Miles on What Happened | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Jews, Strasser "finds the Streicher-Stiirmer form of anti-Semitism ... as stupid as it is repugnant, but . . . would retain, in dignified form, measures of restriction against the excessive spread of Jewish influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hitler's Rival | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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