Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does before saying something important, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald declared to a roomful of correspondents: "The problem, as I see it, is not merely the recovery of this nation but the restarting of the commerce of the world. We must have a conference to boldly tackle this much bigger problem in all its aspects...
Only good that Akron could see in the war was the possibility that it might put a stop to the bigger & bigger concessions that important buyers have been demanding-and getting-for the past few months. From now on, tiremen hoped, the list price would be the actual selling price, not a fond wish. In Chicago both Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co. promptly cut 5% under Firestone's new prices...
Last week, with most U. S. cities regarding opera as a luxury to be forsworn and even New York worried about its Metropolitan, Impresario Merola announced still bigger things for San Francisco. Next autumn he will have a ten-week season. To prepare for it he opened an opera chorus school, the only one in the U. S. outside New York. He appointed Adolph Bolm who used to dance with the Diaghilev Ballet to start ballet classes. Said Signor Merola: "We are going to teach in our school everything that has to do with the lyric stage. . . . We have...
...blatantly programatic as Grofé's. It described tables being set in a speakeasy still reeking with smoke from the night before. Revelers drifted in. Two lovers sat in a corner oblivious to the noise around them. Hot, reeling couples packed the dance floor "not much bigger than a dime." Corks popped in a drunken finale. But Night Club had verve, spontaneity, fresh harmonic and rhythmic effects missing from the run of ambitious jazz, which nowadays seems all dressed up with no place to go. Two parts at least-the melody given to the lovers and the strident "Dance...
...crack player and one just average are playing. The average player puts his ball on the green, say, 20 or 25 feet from the cup. The expert is closer, say, 12 to 15 feet. But each will take two putts and halve the hole. If the cups were bigger, the average player still would take his two putts . . . but the expert . . . would knock his in every time. There would be the thrill. . . . The payoff in golf is to get that second shot close...