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Word: vargas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private First Class Clarence W. Ross, stationed at Las Vegas Army Airfield, peeled off his uniform at the National A.A.U. Senior Weight-lifting Championships, displayed his Varga-boy thorax and other features (see cut), which added up to a title: 1945's Most Perfectly Developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...their meticulously tidy barracks, they hang up an occasional picture of Hitler. (U.S. prisoners in Germany enjoy the privilege of hanging whatever pictures they please.) More often the Germans have pictures of their families, the Goethe deathmask and Varga girls. They decorate their mess halls with elaborate paintings-the Alps, German heroes, busty girls. Across one day room an artist has painted a group of naked women, on the wall opposite the stern admonition "Ein guter Soldat muss verzichten koennen." (A good soldier must learn to do without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Legion of Despair | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Instead of Varga Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...thoughts turn to war! I have looked at countless books and magazines with dates from 1921-44, and all of them, in some way, glorify the war machine! I looked over some old German calendars. In the U.S. on the page for each month we usually put a 'Varga Girl' or maybe rural scenes, or advertisements. On all the German calendars are beautiful color pictures of the German Army in action or in training: such thrilling scenes as a German Panzer unit crushing and running down a group of British Tommies who are shown screaming and clutching their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...creator of the well-known "Varga Girl" will make his decision on the basis of photographs of Navy wives and sweethearts submitted by officers of each the six companies now midway through their "ready for sea" training at the Supply Corps School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARGA, FAMOUS ARTIST TO PICK QUEEN OF NAVY | 8/25/1944 | See Source »

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