Word: girth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approved (as both unusual and practical) recipes grew, we began mailing some of them out to food stores to be displayed with their goods. Customers tried them and asked for more. So did many of us here at TIME-to our complete satisfaction and, in my case, expanded girth...
Yale did not run against Princeton. It did not run because it could not. However, Messrs. Hickman and Jack Lavalle have seen Harvard's defensive setups. The latter, an operative whose girth is comparable to Hickman's and whose football sagacity is legendary, scouted Army nine times a year for three years while in the employ of the Notre Dame Athletic Association. If he found flaws in the 1944, 1945, and 1946 Army lines he must have noticed by now the carefree fashion in which Princeton and Brown went through the center of Harvard's line. This means that Yale...
Justice William O. Douglas, 50, enjoying one last ride in Washington's Cascade Mountains before going back to work at the Supreme Court, stopped to tighten a slipping saddle girth. When he tried to remount, the horse reared, threw him and rolled on him; then Douglas slid and sprawled down 50 feet of rocky slope. Injuries: 13 broken ribs and a puncture of one lung...
...rotund Tennessean takes considerable pressure off his squad by assuming it himself. Hickman has been in New Haven for only half a year and is fast becoming a legend. His prodigious appetite, his great girth, the license plate that says "HICK," and the famous stories about the folks back home all eat up news inches, while the Yale team forges ahead undisturbed by the intense light of relentless publicity...
Ireland's finest silver fir still stands (thanks to the fact that a contractor's saw was once too small to fit its girth)-in Parnell's old garden at Avondale at Wicklow. But in the rest of Eire, trees are grown on only 1.6% of the land. Eire is, indeed, the most treeless country of Europe. Why? To a Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech...