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Word: biggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into southwest Africa. Last week Harvard's Dutch-born Astronomer Willem Jacob Luyten examined the sky-piece and found it the biggest thing of its kind yet observed by Science. It measures 10 by 10 by 14 feet and weighs between 50 and 75 tons. Hence it is bigger than the record 36½ ton meteorite found on the edge of Greenland by the late Polar Explorer Robert Peary and given to the American Museum of Natural History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteorites | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

That squash pie? They make it lousy here. Fifteen cents? Why you can get a bigger piece at the Georgian for a dime. Yeah, a lot bigger. Better, too. This here tastes like oatmeal. Don't you eat there any more? I used to, too. The fellow got sore one time, though. I was balancing a glass of milk on my knife blade and it spilled all over somebody's lap and they kicked...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

Blanche Vabre, even bigger and more forbidding than Mme. David, chopped off the ten fingers which her 16-year-old stepson had raised in terror to protect his throat, and with another slash almost severed the boy's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Four Furies | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Banker Morgan. Since the House of Morgan has deep, traditional roots in England, young "Jack" served his ap prenticeship in the city of biggest banks - London. There are no less than five British banks ("The Big Five") bigger than any in the U. S.- Midland Bank, Ltd., Lloyds Bank, Ltd., Barclay's Bank, Ltd., Westminster Bank, Ltd., National Provincial Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Iron Man & Velvet Glove | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

West Point, N. Y., February 22--Harvard's quintet, with Captain O'Connell kept on the bench by an injured leg, put up a game right against the Army tonight, but finally succumbed to a bigger and stronger team by the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CADET QUINTET DOWNS HARVARD IN FAST CLASH | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

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