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Word: bigger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tanker's lights ahead and off to the right, again reported to the bridge. Again the mate sounded the whistle. Then, says Gomez, "all of a sudden, within moments, I don't know how long, I saw lights off the starboard bow." The lights got "bigger and bigger, as though it was going to come down on me." Gomez ran for his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Collision at Sea | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...garrisoned. Yet, though unwillingly bound to Moscow, Poles find reason to think that even the West will acknowledge their claims. They noted happily that President Eisenhower, in his recent television broadcast on the Berlin crisis, used a map showing the western territories as part of Poland. They got a bigger lift last week from France's President de Gaulle. That stout friend of Konrad Adenauer insisted that enmity between Germans and French no longer exists, and that France endorses West Germany's drive for reunification of today's two Germanys. But then he added carefully, "provided they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Livid Scar | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...even carries his own props. "This fellow here," he says, suddenly snatching a green china dinosaur from his briefcase, "is called a triceratops. He had the biggest radiator ornament in prehistoric history. It kept getting bigger and bigger until finally he could no longer hold up his head. He had a wheelbase of nearly 30 feet. The dinosaur perished because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...midst of the biggest stampede for the wide open spaces since the California gold rush. TV's western boom began four years ago, and every season since then, the hay haters have hopefully predicted that the boom would soon bust. Yet every season it has been bigger than the last. Last week eight of the top ten shows on TV * were horse operas. The networks have saddled up no fewer than 35 of the bangtail brigade, and 30 of them are riding the dollar-green range of prime night time (from 7:30 to 10 p.m.). Independent stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Agriculture Department last week broke the solid and disturbing news that there are still bigger crop surpluses ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Bigger Surpluses Ahead | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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