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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hale and the children of Maillé were in Paris last week, having a wonderful time. In the restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, a beribboned youngster planted a big kiss on Mrs. Hale's cheek (see cut). The Angel of France could not have been happier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: The Fervent Angel | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Novelist Lloyd C. Douglas, 72, told a Boston interviewer that he was staunchly opposed to change and that he tried to get that idea across in books like The Robe and The Big Fisherman. "I have only one theme," he said. "All authors have only one theme, though few will admit it. My theme, it happens, people like, because they long to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Toil & Trouble | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...sell licenses for that sort of stuff, he said then if I go ahead and I said OK I won't cry, and if some of your peddlers get shot by local citizens . . . don't you cry, he said oh well I'll put a big black circle around Wharton county and work the rest of the state and nation. I told him good by, and he left mad, and I was glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Then the Wolverines tried hitting the line and found it just as easy to gain there. By winning, 14-7, twice-beaten Michigan took some steam out of unbeaten Minnesota's big drive toward the Western Conference championship and the Rose Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset Saturday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Minnesota's big, rugged line was enough to scare any coach. Before last week's traditional battle for the "Little Brown Jug," Michigan's Coach Bennie Oosterbaan decided to strike over Minnesota's beef trust instead of through it. Bull's-eye passes set up two Michigan touchdowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset Saturday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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