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Word: seven-pound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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Usage:

...Francisco, Mrs. Tessie Chronis called an ambulance, announced she had appendicitis, had been in pain for several days. Rushed to Park Emergency Hospital, she gave birth to a seven-pound daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mouthful | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...morning of July 7, 1889, John L. Sullivan rose from a creaking bed in a Rampart Street boarding house in New Orleans and ate for breakfast a seven-pound sea bass, five soft-boiled eggs, a half-loaf of graham bread, a half-dozen tomatoes, and drank a cup of tea. For lunch he had a small steak, two slices of stale bread, and a bottle of Bass' ale. For dinner he ate three chickens with rice, Creole style, and another half-loaf of graham bread dunked in chicken broth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Mercury's Luck | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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