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Word: tallness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediately hustled off in a long, gleaming motorcade to inspect automobile plants. At the Cadillac factory he asked final-assembly workers so many questions that cars began coming off the end of the line unfinished. He also appeared at two more dinners, greeted his kid brother Mahmoud, a tall, handsome senior at the University of Michigan, and startled a reporter who asked him what he thought of American women. "I see many of them in the streets," he said in puzzled tones, "but I don't see many pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coast to Coast on a Red Carpet | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...well of a federal courtroom in Manhattan sat the tall man in the neat suit, motionless but intent. Beside him sat his wife. For the better part of three days last week the eyes of the pair-Alger and Pris cilia Hiss-were fixed on the man in the witness chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE: The Opened | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Michael Scott is a tall, gaunt-faced Anglican minister who has labored a good part of his 43 years among South Africa's underdog black men. "My religion," he says, "knows no color bar." He likes to quote Paul's Epistle to the Colossians: "There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Cry for Humanity | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Massive Leon Hart, 21, an end for Notre Dame, won the Maxwell Memorial Trophy award as college football's player of the year. Although he still has two more games to play, rival pro leagues were bracing to bid for the tall (6 ft. 4½ in.), rugged (252 lbs.) lad from Turtle Creek, Pa. In the All-America Conference, the Baltimore Colts had rights to him. In the National Football League, clubs drew lots a fortnight ago. Six men made wry faces, but Coach "Bo" McMillin of the Detroit Lions clutched his slip of paper as though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Laurels & Leverage | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Signo. In Washington, police were looking for a tall (6 ft.) man in his seventies, wearing faded blue overalls, who had passed more than a dozen bum checks all signed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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