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Word: hoariest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past three or four days, there has been seen, in close proximity of the college, an aged automobile, so ancient in vintage that its counterpart does not survive in the memory of the hoariest of the entering class. Conspicuous among the Packards and Mercedes' of the callow Freshmen, it still retains its brass-bound dignity, and rightly too, for it is a car with a proud past, and needs not defer to any present-day glittering non-entity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ancient and Illustrious Chug-Buggy Again Navigates Cambridge Highways and Byways | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Neither the hoariest monkey nor the most venerable boa constrictor on the jungle shores of Gatun Lake had seen such a sight as took place on that cobalt body of water last week. For 48 hr. a file of warships in pairs, by the dozen, by the score streamed steadily westward through the Panama Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: March Across Panama | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...Hoariest survivor is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene which has over 600 performances to its credit (Abie's Irish Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Retrospect | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...Walter Baker's Chocolate, Maxwell House Coffee, Calumet Baking Powder, Postum, Hellman's Mayonnaise, Grape Nuts, JellO, Log Cabin Syrup, Swan's Down Cake Flour, Diamond Crystal Salt) which it distributes through 400,000 grocery stores. The average age of the component companies is 40 years. Hoariest of all is Walter Baker's Chocolate, now celebrating its 150th anniversary. Chairman of General Foods is Edward F. Hutton, husband of the daughter of Postum-Founder Charles William Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals & Developments: May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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