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Word: suggestive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antiaircraft) was almost unbearable, though the defense barrage was comforting. It was also expensive - ?250,000 nightly - and brought down only 3% to 5% of bagged planes. The siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole ful wail which depresses all but the most stouthearted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Death and the Hazards | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...furs come as low as $300, as high as $12,000. Since the quota on platina foxes has already been filled, due to unloading by Norwegian furriers before the war, the fur Ripley's four Norwegians brought with them is being held in a warehouse until December. To suggest the fur that wasn't there a fancy platina fox worth $11,000 was on display in the studio. On hand for the show were representatives of many a famed Manhattan store, along with bidders from stores in Philadelphia, Dallas, Cleveland, Chicago and Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Believers in Fur | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...course in Latin American relations modelled on Professor Hopper's courses, Government 18 and Government 30, is apparent. The question is, of course, whether there are enough students who would be willing and able to take the course were it given in the second half-year. I suggest that those interested in drawing up a petition to the Department of Government meet tonight between 7 and 7:30 o'clock in Eliot O-41. Jack Bronston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/25/1940 | See Source »

...evidence is overwhelming that polls conducted by scientific methods of sampling public opinion are accurate. But TIME does not conduct the Gallup Poll and, although that poll's record has been good, cannot vouch for its complete scientific accuracy. Senator Wheeler might suggest to Dr. Gallup that they jointly conduct a poll in Montana under conditions that will satisfy both of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...Willkie is so eager for a debate ... I suggest that he challenge his running mate, Senator McNary, with whom he is at greater variance . . . than . . . with the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Ickes to Willlcie | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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