Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between the two teams which have finished first in the two groups (Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens). The winner of this last series wins the Stanley Cup. The advantages of this system are that six of the ten teams in the National hockey league share in the playoffs, which draw bigger gates than league games. The disadvantage is that games in the league schedule have almost no significance...
James Y. Murdoch, 40, King's Counsel, a man of great esteem in Toronto, last fortnight reported to the shareholders of Noranda Mines, Ltd. of which he is president. From Noranda's deep shafts which pierce rich veins of gold, and from its bigger copper deposits, from its smelters and refineries, last year Noranda earned only $3,842,000 against $4,287,000 in 1929. But this news was not discouraging to Noranda's shareholders, all of whom have had faith that the spectacular history of Noranda cannot continue dull for long. For a few days after...
When Editor Edward Bok retired in 1919, Mrs. Rinehart was offered the editorship of the Ladles' Home Journal, regretfully turned it down. But she went to Hollywood on a three-year contract. Still the family fortunes rose. They moved to a bigger house in Sewickley. They moved to Washington, D. C. They vacationed in the Cascades, in Mexico, in Egypt. The boys grew up, went to college (Harvard) and married. Now two of them are members of the firm of Farrar & Rinehart, have helped publish several of their mother's books...
...that Commander Byrd was indeed lucky that a big wall of ice hemmed him in so he could not venture too far, tumble into eternity. He also holds that the sun is 32 miles across, no more than 3,000 miles away. He says that to have made a bigger or more distant sun would have been wasteful on the part of the Lord...
...postcard, printed in red ink, which Col. May sent last week to all of Gulf's shareholders, all of his friends, many a broker. It predicted that Gulf, selling in the low $30'$ last week, will pass $100 within a few months, may soon be absorbed by a bigger company. But Gulf, said Col. May, will enter no merger at a price of less than $200 if he can help...