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Word: lilliput (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...trustees hoped to see the Neilson miracle reworked. But in eight years as president, Davis proved more distinguished for his prose style than his administrative tact. Last week, at 55, Herbert John Davis announced from a Smith sickbed (appendicitis) that he would quit the presidency and go back to Lilliput...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After the King | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...women of Lilliput stood a good six inches in their stocking feet. Mounted on speedy rats and armored in the wing cases of beetles, they hunted mice and moles, and caught fish with horsehair. They wrote unsentimental Lilliputian love poems, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lilliput Land | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...impression of this brief journey to Lilliput is one of awe for the invention, mechanical ingenuity, imagination and grinding labor that create Disney cartoons. From the intelligent, cheerful appearance of the creator's employes, it appears to be no secret to them how good they and their product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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