Word: biggish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing organically wrong. They prescribed digitalis (which he has taken ever since). The ailment has never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week in the Senate pool. Back home in Grand Rapids, he lives in a biggish brick & stucco house, works at an old-fashioned rolltop desk in his book-lined...
...pursuit of the fabulous four-minute mile has long since made track a biggish business in Sweden. When promoters found that amateurs liked to eat as well as run, they began cutting them in on the profits. Last week Swedish newspapers reported that the Amateur Athletic Association had finally heard about it-and had been prop-perly shocked to find that Gunder (4:01.4) Hagg, Arne (4:01.6) Andersson and some 13 other hot-footing track stars had been eating right well. For charging as much as $500 for a single performance, the Association was about to rule them pros...
Generals, brigadiers and colonels hopped briskly to one side as imperturbable British painters dragged their ladders, pails and paintpots through the busy halls of London's District Office Building. The painters set to work in a biggish, two-windowed room. First they covered the red-green-&-brown-speckled carpet with canvas, then slapped a coat of cream-colored paint on the walls and departed. Other workmen began moving in telephones and desks. Staff officers who took time to peek noted that there was ample floor space for a couple of comfortable chairs, ample wall space for outsize maps...