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Word: mammoths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tune of God Bless America, Stanford students so sang last week. In their mammoth yellow stadium, 65,000 football fans had gathered to see their Indians play Washington in the No. 1 game of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Waltz Time | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Greater Boston Republicans will wind up their campaign with torchlight parades here and a mammoth rally at the Cambridge Rindge Technical High School tonight where bigwig Republicans will speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOP WILL HEAR SALTONSTALL, AUSTIN, PARKMAN AT RALLY | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...anthology of notable letters. But he has been too busy publishing other people's best-sellers to complete one of his own. He was also hampered by an embarrassment of riches. As friends sent him new finds, the Schuster letter collection swelled, at last filled "many mammoth volumes." Whenever he decided to publish, a new "irresistible" letter would turn up. This week he finally got it off the press: A Treasury of the World's Great Letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Other People's Mail | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...week whirlwind campaign. In his wake he left a trail of fainting girls and women-sometimes as many as a dozen would be laid out on the truck, prostrated by the crush of O'Daniel handshakers. On Saturday night, after the polls closed, he threw a mammoth party in the Governor's Mansion to celebrate his impending victory. Son "Nickey Wickey" O'Daniel sang Old-Fashioned Love in My Heart; Texas Rose sang I Want to Be a Cowboy. On the Governor's lawn 2,500 citizens, including nursing mothers, children and adolescents trampled on flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Pappy Over Cyclone | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...week its operating chief, Vice President Charles M. White, announced that Republic was going to maintain this lead. With one 50-ton-per-shift, two 25-ton, three 15-ton, two 6-ton electric furnaces all going full blast, White announced that his Canton works would soon add two mammoth new electric furnaces with a combined capacity of 100 tons per shift, roughly a 50% increase in Republic's capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Expanding Furnaces | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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