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