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Word: talled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparison to yours, but he rules six times as many subjects as you have subscribers. . . . He himself may be "little" compared with the giant of Sweden, or the barrel-like Göring, but so is the average man, on or off the throne. He has been called "fairly tall" by those who know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week in Washington, two tall Wounded Knee veterans named James Pipe-on-Head and Dewey Beard called on small Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier. Their purpose: to urge him to ask Congress to award $1,000 to all living Indian survivors of the battle, including themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Wounded Knee Veterans | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Negro Actor Ingram, not to be confused with Director Rex Ingram (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) has been on & off stage and screen for almost 20 years, played by far his greatest role as de Lawd in the cinema version of Green Pastures. Forty-two, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...behalf of a Morgan banking group that Richard Whitney strode across the floor to U. S. Steel post on a dark day in 1929 to bid $2.05 per share for 25,000 shares of steel -15 points above the market. That spectacular bid temporarily stayed the avalanche and the tall figure of Richard Whitney became the hero of the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Than $1,000 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week a full-length documentary film on Mexican animals, produced by Brothers Stacy & Horace Woodard, made the road runner-rattlesnake story a little less tall but no less telling. The Adventures of Chico shows 10-year-old Goatherd Chico taking his siesta, guarded by his road runner pet. A rattlesnake approaches. Without hesitation the bird attacks, head feathers fanned and wings tensely spread. Like a matador it lures the snake into striking, easily swings out of reach. Like a matador it waits and feints till the enemy tires, then kills with swift skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Feathered Matador | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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