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Word: bigger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shape at the height of the season both teams should turn in even better performances than last week on the bigger armory floor. Extra stands have been installed in the anticipation of a large crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Favored Polo Trio to Face Elis in Second Series Tilt | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

...addition to his college fist-flinging, he ventured into bigger circles, for in 1925 he was National Junior Champion in the 175-pound class, and in the same year was National Champion in the 175-pound class. Also in '25, he won the title of Pan American Champion. In 1926, he was again National Champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamar as Past Master of Boxing Is Well Qualified to Coach Ring Science | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

...With pleasure Franklin Roosevelt put his signature on a bill to advance his No. 1 hobby: legalizing the reproductions of U. S. stamps (if they are considerably bigger or smaller) for the benefit of stamp collectors. Pictures of paper money are still illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...millions of miles of successful operation over the Caribbean, around South America and across the Pacific, Pan American Airways proved to itself that "the bigger the airplane is the more efficient it can be made." The P. A. A. began to eye the Atlantic and ran into the toughest competition in its history. Europe's crack lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Air France and Imperial Airways-all richer than P. A. A. because their Governments directly subsidize them-had plans for the same ocean. But none had over-ocean passenger planes. Three years ago P. A. A. called for ships that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Biggest | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Hearken unto the Voice has many of these qualities. But it also has more mysticism and fewer fights, and in them victory goes to the bigger army. A strange book, only a few hundred pages shorter than Gone With the Wind, it takes place in an instant in time and is probably the longest work ever written about the happenings of a split second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet of Doom | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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