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Word: tallness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, the "foreign press" had indeed speculated feverishly on the Berlin situation. The Paris newspaper Figaro reported that a tall, dark, mysterious man, who was neither a diplomat nor a Russian, had gone to Washington to extend "feelers." U.S. newspapermen picked up many a remote sound and relayed it homewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Lift the Blockade? | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Gayden, is tall and blond; he wears a sufficiently causal blue blazer, drapes himself expertly on a mantelpiece, and quotes poetry on the run. He also apparently has quite a past, with dire hints of such escapades as pushing a boy off a roof, breaking the hearts of countless women (one of whom, it seems, subsequently stuck her head in a gas oven,) and driving his college roommate to hanging himself--a Harvard, inevitably...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...Eugene Dennis, a tall, tweedy, pipe-smoking young man, showed up in the Communist circles of Milwaukee with his pretty brunette wife, "Peggie." Timothy was not with them. So far as any records show, Timothy was, never brought back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Hans Heinrich Lammers, 69, one-eyed chief of the Reich Chancellery and Hitler's man of all work, 20 years; Wilhelm Keppler, Hitler's economic adviser, ten years. When mousy little Otto Dietrich, Hitler's press chief, heard his sentence he turned to one of his tall G.I. guards, held up seven fingers and asked: "Sieben?" The guard confirmed his question with a brief nod and gently steered him from the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Finis | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...moas found ranged from the 12-ft.-tall Dinornis maximus down to the ostrich-sized Euryapteryx. Big & little, they apparently wandered into the swamp while feeding. Their enormous feet were fine defensive weapons (the far smaller South American rheas have been known to kick a mule to death), but were no good for bogtrotting. As they sank, the birds kicked and struggled; skeletons have been found with one leg raised as though in a last, despairing kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Moa in Aspic | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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