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Word: biggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intercollegiate squash league while Yale and Princeton, the only teams that defeated the Crimson, sandwiched the local team on the squash ladder. The team's success in recent years is due largely to the guiding hand of coach Barnaby, who has followed a two point program for building bigger and better squash teams...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...County, Tex., shoved aside his patched blue jeans and scuffed working boots and put on his fanciest rancher's garb. Until then, the biggest day in Joe York's life had been a calf-roping contest in which he won $150. Now he was after a far bigger prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Biggest Thing Yet? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...prefers to survey a man's entire past performance, looking especially to see how he has chosen to spend his time, how well he has executed whatever he has chosen, and how much good these activities have done him. All these factors, the School feels, are clues to the bigger problem of how well-suited the man is for a career in business administration. The School is not hunting for grinds with good marks, for the ideal business administrator is no introvert...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Business School, Grown Through 41 Years, Feeds the Country with Leading Executives | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...Germany would be permitted to build bigger and faster ocean-going cargo ships as a start toward restoring her merchant marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Step Forward | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Tanaka Was Superb. Morison, another breed of sea dog entirely, is rapidly but thoroughly chewing on the bigger chunk (14 projected volumes) that he has bitten off. To judge from the first five, Morison's history may well be the permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pacific Tale, Twice Told | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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