Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside. Behind his broad mahogany desk sat Andrew William Mellon, his thin patrician face a mask to his own reflections. Around the big room were scattered Treasury newshawks attending what would probably be their last press conference with this shy little man puffing meditatively on a black cigar no bigger than a cigaret. His career as Secretary of the Treasury was over; President Hoover, calling him "one of our wisest and most experienced public serv-ants." was sending him to London as U. S. Ambassador...
...other magazine which has felt the pinch of hard, times Outlook & Independent last week changed from weekly to monthly for the first time since its establishment in 1869 as The Christian Union with Henry Ward Beecher as editor-in-chief. Fattened but otherwise unchanged, Outlook will bid for bigger newsstand sales...
Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sat in his shabby dressing-room at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House one night last week, making himself a nose. Baritone Tibbett's natural nose is no bigger than a grape. Whenever he sings in opera he has to build it up so that it can be seen over the footlights. But last week's nose he wanted to be particularly imposing. It was to be a nose to match trailing velvet robes, an ermine cape and a regal beehive headgear, a nose that would be worthy of the U. S. premiere...
Whether or not a bigger & better war would, in the sum total, aid or harm U. S. business, it would be certain to bring about many an unexpected trade stimulus, many a sudden stoppage. Much of what would be destroyed would be rebuilt. Thus last week officers of the demolished Commercial Press, Shanghai, one of the largest and most remarkable shops in the world, employing 14,000 men, were planning to buy new equipment in the U. S., a fat order for hungry manufacturers. But only a mighty war would be likely to benefit the "war babies" of 1915: steels...
...bigger babies are at birth, the more troubles mothers & doctors have delivering them into life. Just why many babies are born too big for comfort a nd safety has always puzzled Medicine. For a long time doctors thought that elderly primiparae (women who had their first pregnancy after 30) would have oversize offspring. But just a year ago Dr. James Knight Quigley, Rochester, N. Y. specialist in obstetrics & gynecology, presented good evidence that the old supposition is not true. Babies of such women averaged, in his series of births, 7 Ib. 8½ oz., which is about normal...