Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large part of his investments. Later, before Franklin Roosevelt was elected President, Baruch put some of his millions into gold. Subsequently that investment became unpatriotic and he had to change it but at the time it showed sound foresight. Other speculators at one time or another may have made bigger fortunes, but in his way Baruch had had few peers. More than most men, he had earned his chance to write his memoirs, give advice to the young and spread his philosophy on paper...
...from disturbing the Dionnes. Dr. Dafoe sent the older five Dionne children, two of whom had developed colds, to live with friends. And Papa Ovila Dionne, who forgot to shave, wandered about, weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that Ovila means ''little...
...stands when the 33 cars, after gathering speed for a lap, rolled past the starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey of Detroit ran his Scott Special into the outer retaining wall, bounced over to the ground. A broken wrist was his only injury. That was the worst wreck of the race.* Fifty miles farther on two more cars skidded with only...
...limestone and volcanic rock. First evidence of an Old Stone Age culture in northern India, these implements were unearthed in a Pleistocene swamp deposit 500,000 years old. Other notable finds included fossils of land tortoises big enough to dwarf the Galapagos giants, and of four-horned ruminants bigger than rhinoceroses but related to giraffes...
...shilling a fuse) damages. Vickers settled out of court, paid Krupp in Vickers stock. When the bewildered reader asks, "How can such things be?" Attorneys Engelbrecht, Hanighen & Seldes point out that these sowers of dragons' teeth are mighty members of their countries' councils, control big newspapers and bigger banks; that their governments, which cannot afford to run state-owned arms industries, cannot afford to let their armorers go idle or elsewhere...