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Word: biggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incidentally, Dewey Short was not against labor, he wanted it known. He had been a worker since he was eight years old. He had sold papers, shined shoes, handled cakes of ice "bigger than I was-they slide," he declaimed. "I know what it is to look at the south end of a mule going north down a corn row all day long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Screeching Pause | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy have been successful at the same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another. He keeps the first against her will, while her real lover waits next door. He is tricked into releasing her, and receives a beating and almost a fate worse than death--from his standpoint--for his pains in chasing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miles Gloriosus | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...done by a group of voteless "associates," while the real control rested with a nine man cabinet. But in spite of its organizational straight-jacket, which the new constitution attempts to do away with, the Key has accomplished an extraordinary amount in its first year. It has been bigger, better, and more active than any other Ivy League Key Society...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Crimson Key Finishes 1st Year as Welcome Mat | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

...latest (September) Audit Bureau of Circulation figures, the morning Los Angeles Times (412,319) was bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Present for the Boss | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...because motorists "want the best they can get for their money and are too accustomed to the convenience and ease offered by standard-size cars." The average length of motor trips is almost twice what it was prewar, said Ford, and the public is all in favor of the bigger luggage space in the postwar cars. "Such improvements," he said, "certainly cannot be made by materially reducing the size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Sale | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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