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Word: stupids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...been the case, a British Cabinet Minister declares that England's frontier is the Rhine, this is really the limit both as regards stupidity and unbearable arrogance. It could hardly be more stupid to declare that Germany's frontier is the Mississippi,* or the Amazon, or the Yangtze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Mississippi Frontier | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...finding bright parents. She started with 50 pupils (average I. Q.: 128). She soon weeded out three: a three-year-old because his mother insisted on too frequent brushing of his hair, a five-year-old because his parents spoiled him, a seven-year-old because he was too stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Bright Children | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...whole isolationist policy is stupid, futile and unchristian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: As to War | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...blanks were returned to Thurber and his committee, to whom the Herculean task of tabulating the ballots was assigned. Comments on the survey ranged from "On the whole a very admirable questionnaire" to "A stupid questionnaire. Typical of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLL IS PRIDE OF '40 ALBUM | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

...Ridiculous . . . utterly stupid," Berlin officials puffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: A Million for Hitler | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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