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Word: damnedest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That either means joint wage agreements or the damnedest strike you ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Meat, and a Bishop | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Gladys Hasty Carroll is not a Pollyanna, but she strongly sympathizes with her hero, who says: "I know something most folks don't seem to know. I know this world is full of the damnedest sweetest people a man would ever hope to meet." Not everybody in Neighbor to the Sky could be called sweet, but both Author Carroll and her hero reach their last-page goal without changing their minds. Like her earlier novels of Maine (As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones), Author Carroll's latest is as sound and sweet as a good Baldwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If Maine Goes | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...have been reading the Bible, and it's the damnedest most interesting book I ever read in my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Richardson v. Richardsonian | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...lives at "Bishopstead" in Wilmington. His specialty has been home missions. When he went to the War he told his friends: "I don't know what I'm going to do along the lines, but you may be sure I'll do my damnedest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Perry's Assessor | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...Stander refused to remain as chemist. At 28 he was one of the best colloid chemists in the U. S. Was it money? No! Why, then? Because, blurted Dr. Stander, a Yale medical graduate, son of a South African country doctor: "Because I'm going to be the damnedest best obstetrician in this country." A Manhattan event last week marked him as superlatively good, if not the best. The vast new medical centre of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association opened for patients and Dr. Stander was head of its department of obstetrics & gynecology, director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medical Centre | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

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