Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...complementary. Fair and equable relations between them must be possible. During the war labor gave much; capital promised much. Now that war is over, labor, willing to compromise on many questions and expecting like concessions from the other side, meets, capital. But capital, which has swallowed far bigger pills in its day, refuses recognition of collective bargaining a principle under which it has been tacitly working many years. This principle labor cannot abandon without losing all for which it has fought so long...
...only way to combat the direct reactionist (sic) is to demonstrate to him that there is more force on the side of law" etc. Meaning, one demonstrates that one is right by having over-bearing physical force on one's side. Right, naturally, is on the side of the bigger club, just as in the good old days of the cave men. Are we to have cave-man morality or the principles of peace? Mr. Carver wants both...
...scientific training is becoming of less importance each year. The few exceptions to this rule which still exist merely serve to prove that the man without a college training is the real man without a chance. Do not become one of them. Choose the road which leads to a bigger and more satisfactory life-it is the which leads through the University...
...become the greatest among the Supermen is to win a bigger victory than any other general. Von Buelow now leads the competition, thanks to the Italian retreat, and Von Hindenberg has to act quickly or go the way of Von Kluck and the other old-timers. When a German general is worried as to the next move he either writes a proclamation thanking God and the soldiers for help received and promising more victories with no casualty lists, or he mentions the idea of moving right on to Paris. The latter method is apparently more fashionable this year...
After a brief description of personal experiences in London where he saw the first Zeppelin brought to earth "white hot and bigger than an ocean liner," and in the training camps of England and France, where men told him of "periods of thirty days they had spent soaked to the skin in rain and mud," Mr. Eddy went on to a description of the Y. M. C. A. hut work...