Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago the hotel was bigger than other hotels, and grander. There were pipes without end for cold water which ran hot. and for hot water which would not run at all. . . . Men in those regions . . . make their plans on a large scale, and they who come after them fill up what has been wanting at first. Those taps of hot and cold water will be made to run by the next owner ... if not by the present."-Anthony Trollope...
Morgan: Why, I've got a grandson bigger than...
...system. Dr. David Marine proved this by feeding Akron school children iodine twice a year from 1916 to 1919 and practically eliminating goiter from that bedeviled community. Most specialists work on the assumption that, for deficiency of iodine, the starved thyroid must work extra hard and grow bigger. On the other hand. Colonel Robert McCarrison from evidence he gathered in the Punjab is certain that germs in drinking water indirectly cause goiter. Iodine in drink or food, he believes, kills such germs in the intestines...
...that looked fine in his Modern Salon Co.'s Manhattan showroom but looked like a fair carrousel in the customer's apartment. Then Mont would redecorate the room to match the bar, the whole apartment to match the room. He made more ornate bars, got bigger decorating jobs. He puts all his profits back into the business, keeps 50 men busy in his Manhattan factory. Last February he opened a second Manhattan showroom in the St. Moritz Hotel. Next fortnight he will open a $50,000 display at the Traymore in Atlantic City. Mont bars...
...Three miles from Akron is Wingfoot Lake, home base of Goodyear's fleet of baby blimps. There last week a silver bubble floated in the sky. small enough to be an egg of the mammoth Macon, yet bigger than any nonrigid airship heretofore built in the U. S. The bubble was the TC-13, just built by Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks...