Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smallest player on the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team is their reserve right wing, 137-lb. Ken Doraty. In a way his insignificant appearance is an advantage: opposing defensemen find it hard to be prepared for the sudden bursts of speed his short legs can achieve. A bigger man is a better target for a bodycheck. Last fortnight little Doraty, at the end of his first year in major league hockey, did something that should insure him more: he ended an historically long game (2 hr. 44 min. 46 sec.) by scoring the goal against the Boston Bruins that...
...Hotel Santa Clara. When it exploded it killed one Manuel Gonzales. 32, a Spanish salesman for lottery tickets. A small bomb exploded in front of a Havana tax office. A policeman reached the scene just in time to have his left hand blown off by a second, bigger bomb. At Guanabacoa a earful of men poured slugs from sawed-off shotguns into Military Supervisor Captain Oscar Pau, who had been accused of atrocities against Oppositionists...
...depressions, the beginning of inflations are marked by rising commodity prices. Many a depressed trader began to take heart last week. It was fine that corn was strong because higher corn prices mean bigger farm income for more farmers than do higher wheat prices...
Stocks took their cue from commodities, mounted moderately led by such companies as American Sugar (in hope of a sugar recovery), Homestake Mine (bigger profits in gold if the dollar is devalued), Corn Products (in hope of corn recovery...
Denver Gas Stoves, which must have bigger flues than Savannah gas stoves because on mountains, gas burns less readily than at sea level-reported by Bureau of Standard's John Hartshorn Eiseman, Francis Albert Smith, American Gas Association's C. J. Merritt...