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Word: huskier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as pencil and paper quizzes. Results: Progressive pupils scored higher than those in traditional schools in knowledge of current affairs and people, honesty, cooperation, leadership, ability in creative, writing and art, critical thinking, breadth of interests. Traditional school pupils knew more about rules of health, Progressive pupils were huskier and healthier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Progressives' Progress | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...ascension. At the crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trojan Twain | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...When an old sow has produced ten or twelve pigs, in two or three weeks one or two or three of them start to go back until finally when weaning time comes, they're curly pot-bellied runts. Why? Because these runts were compelled by their larger and huskier brothers and sisters to eat at the rear end of the lunch counter. That's the trouble with American agriculture. For twelve long years this great basic industry has been sucking the hind teat of this country of ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Runt Relief | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Torchsinger Libby Holman's tonsillectomy had opposite results. Her voice became lower, huskier, made her Broadway's overnight rage. Tampering with singers' throats is always dangerous. If Tito Schipa's voice should drop like Torch-singer Holman's, he might have to renounce his romantic tenor roles, become a villainous baritone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Curtain | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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