Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Feb. 21), but I can't help wondering where your writers would turn to substantiate the statement that the big cats "sometimes [grow] to nine or ten feet from gorging on deer," or on anything else. . . . There may be something in some local deer that makes cougar bigger in some areas of the country. I don't know. I do know that the biggest "lion" yet killed by a family of brothers who hunt them professionally in three southwestern states and northern Mexico was several inches under eight feet long. These men have killed quite...
Canada's prime interest is in the $46,000,000 "northwest staging route": six key airports from Edmonton to Whitehorse, with runways bigger than New York's LaGuardia Field...
...hesitant in public, agonized by his stuttering. Now he walks with dignity. His voice usually has rounded, effortless confidence. The speech impediment still troubles him when he broadcasts, but is otherwise seldom noticeable. He is still only 5 ft. 8 in. tall and slightly built. But he seems a bigger...
Originally from Maine fresh-water lakes, the smelts were transplanted to Michigan's Crystal Lake in 1912 as food for salmon. The salmon unaccountably disappeared, but the smelts thrived, soon spread through the Great Lakes. In Huron and Michigan fishermen dipping for bigger fish found them a nuisance. Developed into a popular table delicacy, the silver smelts became a big industry in the past decade; prices jumped from ½ to 4? a Ib. This year OPA had counted on smelts for 10,000,000 Ib. of food...
...Colonel's challenger, Clinton McKinnon, 37 is little bigger than an outsize jockey. It has taken him only about three years to gallop an idea, and little else, into his San Diego daily. The idea: local news sheets handed free to Los Angeles County's swarming war workers (TIME, Nov. 2, ). Last August McKinnon sold these throwaways - the San Fernando Valley Times, Los Angeles Aircralt Times, Long Beach Shipyard Times (they had grossed $700,000 in ads in 1942) 1942)-and 1942)-and moved to San Diego where he set up the triweekly Progress-Progress-Journal...