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Word: skinniest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker Jonas is 61, prosperous in appearance. He likes to recall that once as a boy he broke a store-window, escaped a thrashing when the owner exclaimed: "You're the skinniest boy I've ever seen." The reason he remembers this is that now, 5 ft. 9 in. tall, he weighs 190 lb. despite the fact that he devotes all of Saturday to golf. His excuse: "Perhaps my wife has fed me not wisely but too well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Four into One | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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