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Word: fanciest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 50,000 people ("a milling, surging, disorderly crowd," sniffed the surprised Boston Herald) broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71¼ tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner. When it paused at Hartford, 30,000 gawking sightseers eddied past its figure8 fuselage. At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats. Then it headed for San Francisco, soon dropped down on the International Air Terminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...nights this week, trains of snorting vans lumbered up to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and disgorged rich cargoes from Detroit. Inside the hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

More cautious and staid in its praise, but still loaded with adjectives, was the New York Times. Allison Danzig dubbed the Crimson as "one of the cleverest, fanciest, and hardest-hitting Harvard elevens since Percy Haughton...

Author: By John Shortlidge, | Title: Press Goes Overboard On Crimson | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

...Nothing like these black and crimson clad heroes has been seen since the dear dead days that seemed beyond recall for Harvard through years of mediocrity ... (this is) one of the cleverest fanciest, and hardest-hitting Harvard elevens since the days of Percy Haughton...

Author: By Chuck Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...late next fall, when the hammers are stilled and the plaster dust settled, Manhattan's sedate Times will be settled in one of the fanciest quarters in the business. An air-conditioned building with pastel walls, glass-brick partitions and functional furniture, it has cozy bedroom suites for executives, playrooms and dining rooms for all 3,300 staffers and a city room so vast that the city editor has to use a microphone to page his far-flung reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Changing Times | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

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