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Word: livest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-informed man and he will snap right back at you: "Biggest, fastest-growing city in North Carolina. Population three years ago, 48,000; now, about 70,000. Home of Camel cigarets and the rest of the Reynolds Tobacco products. Been booming like Billy-get-out lately. Livest town down South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winston-Salem | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...Times (Democratic), livest to the situation of all Manhattan newspapers, took counsel early, decided that it was within the law, published all the names and amounts it could lay hands on. It gobbled the hot potato whole and was willing, if necessary, to pay $1,000 for so good a meal. To a city full of irate financiers it said: "Resentment . . . is justified but belated. It should have been aroused more vehemently at the time the bill was pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hot Potato | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

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