Mighty Midgets
From 1939 the British Woolworths Group sold "Mighty Midgets", 32-page books that measured 3¾ inches by 2½ inches (10 x 7cm) and were sold at the artificially low price of threepence; the price subsidised by a full page advertisement on the back.
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Famous quotes containing the words mighty and/or midgets:
“If thou be invited of a mighty man, withdraw thyself, and so much the more will he invite thee. Press thou not upon him, lest thou be put back; stand not far off, lest thou be forgotten.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 13:9-10.
“I could marry him. Yes, he would marry me. Midgets are not strong, he could get sick.... It could be done, done.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)