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Word: nicest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Academy has educated its "young gentlemen" according to a prescription written by the nation's great naval heroes, notably John Paul Jones, who said that a naval officer must be not only a competent sailor but "a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy and the nicest sense of personal honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: June in December | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...year) although he spent just as much time in behalf of his private interests; that in general Consolidated had been forced to. pay the freight for the Hearst empire. The court absolved Hearst, his companies and the Consolidated directors of fraud, took occasion to say one of the nicest things William Hearst has heard about himself for a long time ("extraordinary ability . . . phenomenal success . . ."). To John Francis Neylan, attorney who conceived the idea of Consolidated and became its chief executive officer, the court was equally flattering ("zealous in the protection of its interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISHING: Stockholder v. Hearst | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...beyond the accepted standard, you suggested postponement. . . . Mr. Winston Churchill invited his old nurse down ... to her intense happiness; she arrived in an old poke bonnet, her figure had attained ample proportions, and Mr. Churchill walked arm-in-arm with her in the street! It is about the nicest thing a Harrow boy has ever done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Glory on the Hill | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Miss Scarlett's the nicest of O'Hara's dotters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/7/1941 | See Source »

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