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Word: stupidest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captured guerrillas were "better fed and housed than the refugees." Even so, she found them "a miserable-looking lot wearing broken shoes and remnants of worn-out uniforms, Yugoslav, British or Greek. The prisoners looked like the poorest and stupidest of peasants with nothing to hope for and nothing to lose under any social system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Off to War | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Unless Americans breed with more science and less abandon, declared tireless Walter B. Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty), five generations from now they will be "the stupidest great-great-grandchildren of the stupidest great-grandchildren of the stupidest grandchildren of the stupidest children of parents now living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...makes a very good living as CBS's curator of comedy, but he doesn't approve of radio. Longtime writer-director-co-star of Easy Aces, he is an expert on the medium he loves to pan: "Now take the rating system. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. What do you think would happen if a drama critic said Finian's Rainbow was a good, solid 10.4?" In the old days, Ace scornfully poohpoohed Easy Aces' consistently low Hooperating by explaining that "the people who are listening to me are so crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Aces Up | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...rate" said Alice, "I'll never go there again. . . . It's the stupidest tea party I ever was at in all my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Mad Cocktail Party | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...because he's used to them and he might cry, but you can work for, fight for a decent, liberal educational system, for better pay for teachers so that better teachers will come to nourish the minds of the next generation. You can stop patronizing the stupidest 90% of Hollywood's products until they stop making them and are forced to use talent, intelligence and new ideas. You can demand that your radio station devote more time to adult entertainment. You can club together and go out after the hide, ears and tail of the Prohibition Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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