Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corrupt. If so. his sole concern is to ascertain how much circulation the publisher wants, to enhance his reputation as a hustler by getting it, foully if necessary. A threadbare device is for the circulation manager to raise the salary of a district man. ostensibly for showing bigger sales. The district man is allowed to pocket part of the increase, but it is understood that he will refund the balance in payment for a daily allotment of papers in excess of what he can sell. He may dispose of the excess by burning or dropping it in a river...
...well aware that on the Chilean-Argentine boundary is the great Christ of the Andes, 26 ft. high, that Brazil dedicated last year its 130-11. Christ the Redeemer, world's largest, on Corcovado Mountain near Rio de Janeiro (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931). Why not something even bigger for the U. S.-a bronze statue 150 ft. tall, to cost $500,000 which would be raised by the pennies of 80,000,000 believers of all sects throughout the land? Possible sites: near Washington, in New York Bay, or best of all a high point in the Rocky Mountains...
...often verbose, given to clichéd sectarianism and stale prettiness, most of the editors were pleased to the point of enthusiasm. Editor Edward T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press, "strongly impressed," could find no criticism to make. Editor Bingay predicted that Dr. Newton would gain an even bigger following in his field than Walter Lippmann (New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily News, et al.) in politics...
...cabins, took men out of their beds and killed them in cold blood. After that he and his sons were outlaws, hiding, fighting, running for their lives. When government troops finally broke up Kansas' civil war, Brown's little army scattered. But Kansas had given him a bigger, more dangerous idea. He disappeared; sometimes not even his family knew where he was. He visited prominent Abolitionists in the East, begged money for his desperate scheme. About the gist of it he kept a close mouth. His sons feared him, distrusted his mysterious plans, tried to shake free...
Harvard placed five runners in the first ten men in the Varsity race, compared with Princeton's two and Yale's three, so the prospects of making a good showing in the intercollegiate are considered fair at present. In addition, the Varsity harriers defeated both their opponents by bigger margins than other Eastern colleges had done. Foote won five separate medals in the one race...