Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange drone grew out of the southern sky. The Yawalapiti children ceased playing. The adults stopped working and talking. The droning thing became visible very high up in the sky. It looked like a dragon fly. But it was bigger than a condor. The amazed Yawalapiti watched it circle down upon their village with a snarl louder than the snarl of any jaguar that ever lived...
Mercurial in temperament, Don Carlos changes his mind as often as women are supposed to do, switches his programs to suit the times. Thus in 1929 when Columbia University made him a Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) he was shouting for more and bigger loans to Chile, which many Chileans feared as "giving a foothold to imperialism." No sooner did times turn really bad than he popped up at Santiago as a bantam Stalin. A man with a host of friends, a good fellow, spender, gourmet, racy raconteur, Don Carlos was not down last week merely because he seemed...
Martha Granger Blair gave up a job in a dress shop to go with the American. She has a year's contract at a salary "much bigger" than before, will write "authentic, interesting, amusing" stories. Whatever Mrs. Blair will say, she will put down either in longhand or by dictation : she does not know how to typewrite, though for purposes of publicity the American pictured her "writing her first newspaper story" at a typewriter. Fond of tennis, swimming, riding, mother of two, she dislikes golf and bridge, prefers talking to backgammon. Last winter, long before she knew...
...choosing 100 girls for character and breeding sooner than wealth, keeping classes small, teaching always herself, emphasizing scholarship, urging college afterwards but making sure her girls get an "education to live in the world." Spence's 176 pupils plus her own 100 would make her shift to the bigger scale of New York's other schools, but she had no change of method to announce. "It all happened so suddenly," said she, "I haven't had time to think about those things...
...representative Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota. New York's small Bishop Manning agreed to come. An honorary canon of Washington Cathedral, he would preach later in the day. Eyeing the light, airy choir, Bishop Manning might reflect that his own Cathedral of St. John the Divine is bigger but darker. He might also recall a remark Bishop Freeman made in Manhattan some years ago, when both Cathedrals were campaigning for money: "If Washington is not more powerful than New York, then the Capitol ought to be transferred to New York...