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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...control tower the plotters laid out their instruments-parallel, slide, caliper, is-was." (TIME, Dec. 25, p. 20). This is (was) beyond me. And I thought I was (is) a sort of authority on the tools of mathematics. Come now, what the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Just how old does one get in thirty-eight years, anyway? At the risk of being an un-American, defeatist influence, I don't want faith restored to me. You just stay over in the Elysian fields where you belong, and let me wallow my poor benighted way through Hell. Yours very cordially, Pro Bono Publico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

...Vatican in Rome, as the President's personal representative to talk and work for peace in Europe before all hell breaks loose this spring, will go Myron Charles Taylor, 65-year-old retired head of United States Steel Corp., most recently chairman of the Evian conference on international refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: It Shall Come to Pass | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...King boarded a trawler, dirtied his gloves fingering depth-charge apparatus and trawling gear. Later he helped receive a delegation of fishermen and trawler owners at the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. Said the mariners' spokesman, 6-ft.-3-in. Dan Hillman: "Sir, the fishermen are having a hell of a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Recognition | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Yankee Doodle Boy hits pretty hard at Cohan's early days when, as a flip, conceited kid playing in vaudeville, he high-hatted stagehands, raised hell over his billing. But as Cohan matures, the story mellows, draws an affectionate picture of the Great Flag-Waver in his prime. Playing the old songs, bringing on the scene David Belasco, Fay Templeton, George Arliss, Yankee Doodle Boy marches up to 1939. Of young James Graham's take-off of Cohan's take-off of F. D. R. in I'd Rather Be Right, Cohan remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Jerry Cohan's Boy | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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