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Word: bigly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Tufts again threatened to close the gap, big Eddie Cuffe took matters into his own large hands and drove to three consecutive layup baskets, two on feeds from Bowditch, at the nine minute mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cuffe's 24 Points Lead Crimson To 75-66 Win Over Tufts Quintet | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

...M.I.T. match was the Crimson's last match until after vacation, when it will face Cornell on Jan. 9. Although the Big Red should present easy opposition, three days later the Crimson will meet its first real test of the new year against a powerful Williams team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Defeats M.I.T. Varsity, 9-0 | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

...tall plastic doll built like a three-year-old girl. The Ideal Toy Corp.'s Patti Play Pal has surprised even its makers, who shipped 500,000 dolls, found her copied by at least six other makers selling their versions for as low as $7.99. The first big doll to really catch on, Patti owes her success to the industry's ability to make her light in weight (4¾Ibs.) and so lifelike that she can wear her owner's clothes. Other new favorites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Magic Market | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Hubley Manufacturing Co.'s Tic-Toy Clock. The spring-driven plastic clock, with its mechanism visible, actually keeps lime, has big, colored parts that can be taken apart and put back together again. List price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Magic Market | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...days by driving day and night, found that plant profits were often exorbitant. In his lifelong pursuit of facts, he uncovered some strange ones, e.g., a striptease show produced at intervals by the Baltimore Social Security Board. Occasionally he blundered: he urged a reporter to expose a crackpot big-spending scheme called the Manhattan Project six months before the atom bomb was dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Milestones, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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