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Word: likens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unhappy members of the $60,000,000 U.S. brush industry heard a WPB-man liken them to the quick & the dead: "We thought we could supply you with nylon. . . . Three days later . . . there was no supply for us. There isn't a substitute material that we know of that that cannot happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Facts, Figures | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...TIME, April 28, you liken the appearance, sartorially speaking, of Admiral Sir Percy Noble to "a Lawrence Fellowes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...publishers of this first novel liken its discovery to the discovery of Thomas Wolfe. In both cases the so-called "discoverer" (literary agent) was Madeleine Boyd, the manuscript was some 800,000 words long, and the original was ruthlessly cut. Like Wolfe's, Davey's novel is also utterly autobiographical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man's Story | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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