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Word: plumpness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night Ben brought home a book of tickets for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. He told Frances, his daughter, to pick one, and they scraped together $2.50 to pay for it, wrote on it, "Just Must Win." Plump, 40-year-old Pearl prayed to God that they might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Into an Indianapolis hospital, three years ago, interns carried a screaming two-year-old girl who had just fallen over backwards into a scalding tub of water. Her burns were not deep, but they stretched from her plump shoulders to her knees. She had a 1-to-3 chance to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Water | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Dozenberg, a founder of the U. S. Communist Party, and Robert William Wiener, treasurer of the Party,* were arrested last week. Dozenberg's alleged offense: lending his naturalization papers for Earl Browder's use in 1921. Wiener's alleged offense: illegal residence in the U. S. Plump, balding Robert Wiener pleaded not guilty before a Federal judge in Manhattan, heard a U. S. Attorney call him "the rankest sort of impostor," charge that under the aliases of Wiener, Weiner, A. Benson, A. Blake, he was really Welwel Warszower from Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Wiener, Weiner | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Second newcomer was Italian-born Soprano Hilde Reggiani, hit of last year's Chicago opera season. Small, plump, 25, she cooed a coy Gilda to Lawrence Tibbett's towering Rigoletto, hit super-high Ds and Es with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Singers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

First of the airlines to plump for North Beach was the U. S.'s biggest, American, which grabbed three hangars, is now operating 84 of the 138 in-and outbound flights daily from the field. Other tenants are United, TWA, Canadian Colonial, Eastern, still operating from Newark, is belatedly readying to join the others. And from faraway Port Washington (20 miles from Grand Central) Pan American Airways will move to North Beach next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: North Beach | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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