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Word: suggest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mencken noted the industrywide confusion concerning a name for TV fans. He was unimpressed by televiewer, viewer, looker and looker-in. Mencken's contribution: "I suggest trying gawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Video Verbiage | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Suggest Underground Garage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Year Will Mean End of All-Night Parking at College | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...suggest that you, Mr. Harvard, read thoughtfully again Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, go over to the Memorial Church, and then ask yourself whether bowling alleys, swimming pools, facilities for dramatics, and similar whatnots for personal enjoyment, or even for personal self-improvement, really yield the answer to the War Memorial question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Inspirational Memorial | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

...purpose of a university is to have a lot of students, then the university that has the most is the best. If the purpose of a newspaper is to make a lot of money, then the newspaper that makes the most is the best. But I suggest that the purpose of [both] should be to this extent the same: they should both aim at public enlightenment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Reprimand from Teacher | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...letter that earned him as much as $39,000 a year was based on stock market charts. He had said that the tips were based on Maggie & Jiggs only because "I was worried and confused and in a hurry to get out." And even if Maggie & Jiggs did suggest a tip, he insisted that he always checked it against his charts. That was why he had always been right on long-range predictions, though sometimes wrong on short-range ones. Said he: "Stocks always do what they ought to do, but they never do it when they ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Tell Me, Ouija ... | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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