Word: recordsized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Whole Gamut. Always reaching for more laughs, Berle has even tried stooping for them. At Chicago's Palace in 1933, he broke records for five weeks but he outraged the late Chicago Daily News Critic Lloyd Lewis, who found him a "blab-mouthed, satyr-eyed kid" who "toys...
The Lowell and Adams baseball teams perpetuated their unbeaten records yesterday as Lowell smashed Winthrop, 9 to 2, and Adams slapped Leverett, 5 to 1, while Dunster routed Dudley, 12 to 3, for for the first Funster victory of the season.
All three Harvard boats are seeded first on the basis of their undefeated records to date, but their superiority is by no means a foregone conclusion. Anything can happen in a 2,000 meter race, especially one with several new and untested opponents.
In the search for speed on the assembly line he has gone from typewriter to electric typewriter to direct dictation and finally to dictating machines. Now he has as many as four secretaries at a time taking the stuff off records, rattles off 6,000 to 7,000 words a...
Aubrey struck one of his contemporaries as "shiftless . . . roving . . . magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crazed." Yet his collection of yarns and records is today one of Oxford University's most priceless possessions. Anthony Powell's new biography of Aubrey (the first written in more than a...