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Word: blacker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that black thought-and the blacker thoughts of the copy desk-Miss Sulzberger gave up for the night. Next morning she asked our Washington office where they had found the verse to include in their research. Washington replied that it had been enclosed in a letter to a Congressman from a constituent in Spokane. His name was Jack Knight, and they gave his telephone number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...Throughout most of Asia, the white man is truly hated and the sky is black with chickens coming home to roost-probably blacker in Indonesia than anywhere except Indo-China. The natives' passions run away with their leaders' intellects. I am inclined to doubt whether whites and colored will work together in this generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Ir. | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

DICK JENKINS, six foot, 190-pound right end is the fastest man on the Eli squad. A stand-out down-field blacker and always one of the first blue warriors down under punts, he has spent much of his time this year in enemy backfields...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Biographies in Blue | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...parents were blacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...land of the African Rhino There lives a pure white albino. His parents are blacker than Navy tobaccer; How he can be white I'm damnfino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aphorists | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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