Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Splendor, Majesty 8 Fellows? Not vastly different from its predecessors. iQ32's circus is bigger & better?by the addition of a half-dozen more elephants, one rhinoceros, a few other animals and several acts. This year of Depression the Ringling-owned Robinson and Sparks circuses will not perform. Their properties have to some extent been apportioned among the four other shows: Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto, Hagenbeck-Wallace and Al G. Barnes. Throughout the spring and summer these four circuses will play an average of five days a week (twice a day) throughout the U. S., the big show...
Unofficial conclusions of experts and officers on what had been one of the greatest tests the Navy has ever set itself varied in all save two characteristic details: 1) the old Wartime destroyers are obsolescent, "short legged," should be scrapped; 2) a Bigger Navy is needed to defend the U. S. shore line adequately...
...their throats pouches in which they hide small but precious loot. Pressed into military service, such pouched thieves serve as carriers of small documents. They develop their throat pouches by partially swallowing a pellet tied to a string. The training begins in childhood, continues for years with a bigger and bigger pellet, until a useful pouch takes shape...
...kinda sorry I got mixed up in this," said he. "Papers are printing pictures of my children and dragging my family into the story. My policy of avoiding publicity has been knocked for a row of milk bottles. Now I'm right up in the news bigger than the Shanghai war. From now on I'll be watched, not only by the newspapers but by the gangsters...
...been waiting weeks to learn. The new Fords will be entirely different from old models, will be long, low and wide. They will be streamlined, with slanting windshields, V-shaped radiators with rounded crowns the same color as the bodies. They will have freewheeling, larger wheels, heavier tires, bigger hubcaps. The ignition key will be on the steering post, gasoline tank in the rear...