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Word: lighter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the big tanks came lighter tanks and armored cars, followed by waves of soldiers, shouting out the chorus from The Wizard of Oz. By noon they had driven a gaping wedge into the Italian defenses 12,000 yards wide, 3,000 yards deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Fall of Bardia | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...bread that was whiter, Or rolls that were lighter, Than those that they serve you at Ronda

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spanish Song | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Onetime Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, in a Stamford, Conn. court, paid a $15 fine for running over a dog, failing to report the accident. Boxer Tunney, lighter on his feet than most distillery board chairmen, then swung unexpectedly through a window, plopped into a snowdrift eight feet below, legged it to a train before news photographers could flash a bulb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

These figures are excessively top-heavy on the classical side. Estimates at Dartmouth, B. C., and the Little Three reveal a decisive leading toward lighter types more nearly recording the same figures in reversed order. Yale, however, tends to reach Harvard's mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sentimental and Spanish Tunes Top Favorites Among Students | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

Fell in with a carefree group of those clever Yale News boys on the street-car going up to the bowl. One of them tried to give me a hot-foot with his cigarette lighter. He was all out of fluid though--one of the other boys admitted he had drunk...

Author: By Lavinia Dirndl, | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1940 | See Source »

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