Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caltech's Dr. Charles Christian Lauritsen's for 1,200,000 volts, Carnegie Institution's Dr. Tuve's for 2,000,000. In Berlin last year Drs. F. Lange and A. Brasch sent 2,600,000 volts through a simple tube, are building a bigger one for the 16,000,000 volts which lightning often strikes at their experimental station in the Alps (TIME, June 29). The great problem has been to store up stupendous amounts of electricity which could be sent crashing through stout tubes. If power were great enough physicists are sure that they...
...friend's montre was a clock no bigger than a large bun. He had bought it in Geneva, where the things were made. Now it was broken. Could M. Jeanrichard do anything about it? M. Jeanrichard could try. He took the watch apart, spent several weeks trying to put it together again. Finally he sold out his forge and went to Geneva. He returned to establish watchmaking in Le Locle. One of his apprentices was a youth named Pellaton. Long after Blacksmith Jeanrichard was dead, Pellatons made watches, saw them grow smaller & smaller, finer & finer. The present Pellaton, Georges...
...actual throwing that Dr. Bainbridge did last week was carried on in a much smaller theatre, with much smaller projectiles. His theatre was a huge mass-spectrograph; his projectiles, atoms. What earned him scientific plaudits rather than police treatment was the fact that his instrument was bigger than anything that had previously been developed in the U. S., could therefore compute relative weights which differed by less than one-trillionth of one-trillionth of an ounce...
...with the music, only we can't change that although the radios make everyone familiar with the tunes in the show long before people ever get to see it." Changing the subject suddenly he said. "You know there is no excuse for being fat, especially for women being bigger of people after hearing the adage about "your eyes being bigger than you stomach promptly rush into a self-serving lunch room and try to make their stomachs bigger than their eyes." Mr. Allen now began climbing inside a polar explorer's fur suit, remarking or the general depression...
...compositions last week (Metropolis, Mississippi Suite, Kmite Rockne, Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon) and just as for years he made sleazy dance tunes sound like something, so his own music was effective because of the way he varied his rhythms and instruments. Conducting, he made his big climax bigger by crouching down on his square legs, pointing a stubby forefinger. Grofe is planning an orchestra of his own now, but he is also fulfilling the destiny laid out for him by his parents. In Teaneck, N. J., his home, he has quietly built up a nice little business...