Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your alert London correspondent. And may I suggest that he be severely reprimanded for almost omitting, let alone giving only six and one-half lines to what might turn out to be the greatest mystery since "somebody hit Billy Patterson!" Here's "egg" in your eye for bigger and better mysteries! WILLIAM G. TARRANT JR. Richmond, Va. About one-hole eggs there is no mystery. All expert oölogists blow their eggs with a fine silver tube inserted through one hole drilled in the shell. Pressure of air blown in forces the egg's contents...
...months. Second, NRA provided a new force to compel coal operators to raise wages and shorten hours -as General Johnson did fortnight ago to prevent a strike in the soft coal fields. Last week, as a third blessing, NRA provided Mr. Lewis with a new and bigger stage for his oratorical genius. Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis, unschooled, presumably taught himself to speak with a mouthful of nut coal. In other years his resonant, impressive voice, his downright bearing, his mastery of histrionic pauses, of scathing comment, were used in miners' meetings...
...thing noticed, when "General" Farley announced his new contract auction, was that bids were to be opened and announced, not immediately upon receipt, as is customary, but 192 hours after receipt. Another thing: the southern transcontinental route was not included. This circumstance served to underscore a fact bigger than all: of the four major companies that had held old contracts, only one would, without firing its best men and reorganizing, be clearly eligible for new contracts,* and that one line was the line that had had the always unprofitable southern transcontinental route. That line was American Airways, controlled by that...
...wrangling with AAA and NRA officials, the flour millers became the first industry to walk out cold on General Johnson. Their departure raised the question: Should the Administration crack down with its biggest club-power to license industries if they want to do business at all. That posed another bigger question. NRA was given two years of life by the Recovery Act but the licensing club was given to the President for only one year, ending June 16, 1934. If the President wants to use the club after that date he must get Congress to renew his power. He intimated...
...villages and the moving mountainside. Splash! A small piece fell in the water, sent a six-ft. wall of water up the fjord, inundated the power station and plunged the villages into darkness again. The villagers rushed out of their houses toward the slopes. Splash! A bigger piece of mountain descended, heaving a loft. wall of water after the first. It picked up the fishing boats, smashed them against the shore. SPLASH! The rest of the crag fell and a mighty 20-ft. wall of water, white-crested in the dark, roared terribly up the canyon. It picked up whole...