Synonyms for 1940s
1940s

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1. 1940snoun

   Synonyms:
   40s, forties

2. 1940snoun

   The decade from 1940 to 1949.

   Synonyms:
   40s, forties

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1. forties, 1940snoun

   the decade from 1940 to 1949

   Synonyms:
   mid-forties, forties

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1. List of paraphrases for "1940s":

   1940, forties, 40s

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1. Blake Lively:

   I think any jokes about rape, homophobia or Hitler is not a joke, i think that was a hard thing swallow in 30 seconds. Film festivals are such a beautiful, respectful festivals of film and artists and to have that, it felt like it wouldn’t have happened if it was in the 1940s. I can’t imagine Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby going out and doing that. It was more disappointing for the artists in the room that someone was going up there making jokes about something that wasn’t funny.

2. Eire Markings:

   Today, we take high technology navigational aids for granted. In the 1940s, GPS did not exist.

3. George Will:

   In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)

4. Ray Mabus:

   The same arguments are used every time we expand who can serve, it affects unit cohesion, it is too costly, it is too disruptive. That was the argument used against integrating the armed forces in the 1940s. Those same arguments were used against recruiting large numbers of women in the'80s. The same arguments were used during the repeal of' don't ask, don't tell'.

5. White House:

   We'll actually see all these candidates on stage together, we'll have a historic number of minorities, we'll have veterans, people born in the 1940s all the way through the 1980s. It will be a very historic moment just to see that on the stage together.