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

...seconds in a gateway to take pictures, and because of the noisy barrage was not aware that I was blocking the way for three Bren carriers until the driver of one tapped me politely on the shoulder and shouted: "Excuse me, mate-but there's a war on, yer know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LOCAL ACTION | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...R.A.F. pilot was shot down in Occupied France, taken in by a friendly abbess and dressed as a nun. After eight weeks playing the part of a model sister, he suddenly swept a beautiful young nun into his arms. " 'Old yer 'orses, carn't yer?" barked the nun. "I been 'ere since Dunkerque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joke Book | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Keep punchin' till you make yer punches tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Calisthenics period, 1941 model: "Counta one, stretch yer arms out... counta till leave 'em snap back...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE M. avakian, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

...Washa know, Joe? Ain't sheen you yearsh. Howzsh yer ulcer? Have a drink." The foregoing bit of tipsy doodle is an awfully good facsimile of typical convesation between two Old Blue Grads, when a quarter of a century has passed and the first graduating class of the Yale University School of Alcohol Studies convenes, with glasses raised on sly, for a reunion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO BLUENOSES AROUND YALE? | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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