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Word: bullfrogsize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Mamma's Boy, a Punch. In Hebrew, Baruch means blessed. Little Bernard was first blessed in his parents. His father Simon fled his native Posen (then in Germany) to escape conscription in 1855 and became a selfless country doctor in Camden, S.C. He served gallantly as a Confederate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legendary American | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Anzac airmen knew about Mohammed's uncle, who had the voice of 100 trumpets, and Paul Bunyan, who could kill a pond-ful of bullfrogs with a single shout. Big, barrel-chested, ramrod-stiff Jimmy Duncan came close to outshouting them both. The legend was that once when Jimmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Pick Up Those Feet | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Lifted Eyebrow. Not even Godfrey himself can quite explain how he does it. Some students of what the public likes profess to see the answer in the "shine of naturalness" reflected by his use of such words as "doggone," "ain't" and "gotta" -the sort of determinedly rustic phrasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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