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Word: bigger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huey, the Morey thinks, the more he's Fearon' cause the bigger they are the Harder they fall. If you want to know the score its Harvard 20 - Yale...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: LOOK FOR HUEY IN THE BOWL HE'LL HAVE THE LADLE | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

...Easiest Victories." Most journalists who covered the historic House of Commons session at which these policies were nailed to the Empire mast agreed with New York Times London Bureau Manager Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. that "Mr. Chamberlain won one of his easiest victories. . . . [His] majority of 207 tonight was far bigger than his margin of 162 in the vote of confidence that followed Mr. Eden's resignation eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Business of Government | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Other new wrinkles include rotary door latches that catch without slamming; increased visibility through bigger windshield area; sliding sunshine panels in sedan tops; "catwalk-cooling" grilles low-set on the catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Four-Wheel Debutantes | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

American Bantam, smallest of the streamlined lot (120 in. over all), comes in a standard coupé at $399, a station wagon no bigger than a doghouse at $565, and nine intermediate models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Four-Wheel Debutantes | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...literature (he introduced William Faulkner to France, considers him the first U. S. novelist, likes Hemingway and the novels of Dashiell Hammett), he was amazed at the remoteness of U. S. writing men from world problems. In Hollywood he made three money-raising speeches, made a bigger impression on Hollywood's writing colony than any recent visiting celebrity except Hemingway. Aloof, he would speak only through an interpreter, cocked a quizzical, disapproving eye when his French was badly translated. His hosts saw him unbend only when he ate his first alligator pear and when he got tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from Spain | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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