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Word: biggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After years of wrestling his bull fiddle in & out of taxicabs, a Newark musician named Peter Ruggiero invented a collapsible bass viol which folds into a package no bigger than a saxophone case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Size and shallow reserves are the freshmen's main handicaps this year, Harper noted. "They're a good bunch of kids," Harper went on. "They can out-manuever and outfinesse any team their size but they just can't overpower a bigger one like Holy Cross. But they have lots of hustle and that's what I like to see most in a team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Five Meets Tabor Academy in Sixth Contest | 1/18/1949 | See Source »

Harry Truman reported last week on the State of the Union and found it "good." In two messages to Congress he was able to report that the country, at peace, was bigger, busier, and richer than it had ever been in its history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shortcomings & Solutions | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...thinking if I ever want to fulfill my dream of being someone in this world. Maybe I seem foolish to have such vain hopes and plans, but, Bucky, I can see how some day, if you and I just apply ourselves and make up our minds to work for bigger things, how we can some day live here in Washington, and probably be in Government politics or service. I set my aim at Congress. Don't laugh at me. Maybe it does sound rather egotistical and beyond reason, .but, Muriel, I do know others have succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Education of a Senator | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...added stations and bigger audiences meant that TV networks might this year cut their skyrocketing losses. Yet none of the networks was entirely happy. Because there are only two coaxial cables, their use must be divided among NBC (which has more sponsored TV shows than any of the others), CBS, ABC and Du Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: East Meets Midwest | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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