Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro college has ever grown rich, and Lincoln has fared even worse than such younger and bigger institutions as Howard, Hampton, Tuskegee, and Fisk. Its plant consists of a cluster of grimy brick buildings fronting on the busy Baltimore Pike. Lately President Johnson and his trustees have been pondering two facts: 1) the centre of U. S. Negro population, fed by the teeming black sections of Washington, New York and Philadelphia, has been shifting rapidly northward and eastward; 2) Lincoln is the only first-rate Negro university north of the Mason & Dixon Line, east of Ohio's Wilberforce...
...divisible only by itself and 1. Thus 7, 13, 17, and 23 are prime numbers. In Chicago, one Samuel I. Krieger covered 72 sheets of foolscap paper, wore six pencils to stubs. Last week he announced a 72-digit prime number, challenged the world to show him a bigger one. His number...
...animals was materially increased when he bought heavily into Armour & Co. (TIME, Dec. 25 1933). answered "by cable from Paris: EXPOSITION MUST TAKE PLACE ON SCHEDULE. At once his trusted Union Stock Yards President Arthur George Leonard, a founder of the Exposition, went to work to build a bigger, better fireproof edifice in six short months?a steel, brick & concrete modern-Gothic structure, three-storied and three-winged, with a vast grey-beamed, chromium-trimmed arena in its centre. "This," boasted President Leonard, "will be America's new Temple of Agriculture...
Thus last week ended the most flamboyant newspaper circulation contest New York City has witnessed in recent years. But even before prize winners in the first contest were announced, the Post had already embarked on a second and bigger one with $25,000 in prizes; and the tabloids Mirror and Daily News had been drawn into the scramble with offers of $40,000 and $15,000 respectively...
...Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. made its name with an advertisement in which an elegant gentleman in a roadster, passing an unfortunate motorist with a flat tire, sings out breezily: "That happened to me once before I began to use Kelly-Springfield!" But Kelly-Springfield's name was always bigger than its business. Even before the profitless little company was recapitalized two years ago, a fight developed between its stockholders and its management. The stockholders blamed the management for Kelly-Springfield's troubles. The management blamed Depression. A third group, the noteholders, stayed out of the argument until last...