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Word: biggest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Alfred M. Landon last fortnight; so said Michigan's isolationist, Republican Senator Vandenberg last week. "I heartily agree with the President that politics should be adjourned," Mr. Landon had said. "But I submit that he himself should make the first move in that direction by removing the biggest stumbling block of all ... namely, the third term issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politics in Crisis | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...pretty, not military, not smartly turned out (a greyish green overcoat and a chromium badge), not paid, but by all odds the biggest, most valuable and most womanly of British female war work units is the Women's Voluntary Service. Their big test came on the morning of Aug. 31, when the Ministry of Health flashed WVS's chief, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, to get the children and invalids out of urban danger spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

While Miller is by all odds the biggest man on the team, another Sophomore starter is next to the smallest man on the team. He's Fran Lee, who'll be starting Captain Torbie Macdonald's tailback position Saturday. Obviously the reason Lee holds the starting post is Torbie's injury, but Lee will undoubtedly be called on for frequent service throughout the season. Although he's only an average carrier, Lee can pass with the best of them. His appearance truthfully represents that quality of determination which football coaches seek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

Instead of sparing the slightly unbalanced Gates national notoriety, Whitey imported sound trucks and reporters for one of Dartmouth's biggest publicity outbursts. We doubt if Gates found the "peace" he sought, but we'd willingly wager that with Whitey as his manager, he could clean up in a sideshow circuit...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

...biggest problem is not merely to stabilize exchange but to find it. For much of the trade given last year to the U. S., Latin Americans got the bulk of their credits from sales of wheat, coffee, meat and other agricultural products to Europe. Today, with the German market gone, and the European neutrals hamstrung by the war's disruption of shipping, Latin America has to find somewhere to sell her goods in order to get money to buy from the U. S. For the present the war needs of the Allies will help fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Opportunity | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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