Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless, the U.S. Comptroller General refused to let the bill be paid. He claimed that the freight charges should have been based on a circuitous routing, which, though many miles longer, would have resulted in a lower freight rate. Last week the Supreme Court upheld the Government's curious claim...
...brought them aboard and began preparing them for a proper burial at sea. The men were crowded around in close, curious bunches. They were quiet for once and there was a queer, hard look on their faces...
...bone yard. As the picture also shows, he deeply suspected the East, as represented by his wife and by railroad capitalists, and made difficulties for himself by telling off the latter in favor of the Indians. And at length he recouped his fortunes by diluting into showmanship the curious honest grandeur he had known when he was young...
...first stop was at West Point (pop. 2,510), where a high-school band and a thousand curious townsmen clustered on the main street. Wendell Willkie, hero to millions in 1940, world-flying confidant of Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kaishek, climbed up on a truck. Slouched against the cab, hands in pockets, he urged his listeners to unite behind the next President "whoever...
Tender Comrade (RKO-Radio) is a kind of Little Women of World War II. But most of the characters are grownups who speak a curious chewing-gum dialect presumably intended to suggest that the speakers are tough but tenderhearted...