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Word: yes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they did a big switcheroo. 'Please, Mr. Jolson, don't sign with anybody else for ten minutes. Just give us ten minutes, please.' Sign, ha, ha! I didn't want to sign with nobody, so I tell-'em $7,500 a week. They say yes and I almost drop dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Switcheroo | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...couple of years ago," recalled Bingham, "M.I.T. did a really fine job. A spectator could really make out the letters sitting stop the goalpost, or even on a silver flask in the Soldiers Field stands. Yes, that was an engineer's product," he recollected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terriers Trail Hot on Tail Of Technology's Techniques | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

...agricultural production," Henry wrote in his diary, "always seemed nonsense to me." Once, Morgenthau complained to Wallace that it was costing $130 million in overhead for the Agriculture Department to give away $516 million in nine months. Said Wallace: "You don't understand what we are doing." "Oh, yes I do," shot back slow-boiling Henry Morgenthau. "I understand it more every day. . . . The one that costs us more than anybody else is Wallace. My hat is off to him-he is getting away with murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Spenders | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Program scrutinizers will notice the name Margarita on both sides of the cigarette ad. Yes, they are related. Maryland left guard Attillio Margarita is the younger brother of Harlow's backfield specialists and former Chicago Bear, Bob Margarita. The Bob of the family had no comment yesterday on the strength of the Maryland line...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 9/27/1947 | See Source »

...there's yes, yes in your eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How's That? | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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