Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have visitors every day from all parts of the country. We are proud of our Alma Mater. She is growing year by year. In ten years, Duke University will be the "Harvard of the South." I hope you will receive this letter with due consideration. Always for a bigger and better Duke. FRANK E. BRIDGES...
Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in caves, pits, mounds, quarries, buttes for vestiges of the creatures that roamed the earth before them. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating whole dead civilizations. Millions of dollars spent in digging every year. . . . Following are significant efforts and exhumations of recent weeks...
President Palmer practices his preachments. Squibb has been five-day-weeking for three months, its production is at 98% of theoretical capacity, its payroll is 5% bigger than before...
Knute Rockne Jr., 12, 90 lb., held the ball for kickoffs, chirped the signals, lay back as safety man, slapped the bigger boys on the back and his Pembroke prep school "Midgets" beat the Kansas City "Bearcats" 12 to 0 before and after the first half of the Iowa State-Kansas game at Lawrence...
...Hoover saw an indifferent Navy team, beaten by Duke and Notre Dame, convince all doubters that something is terribly wrong with Princeton this year. The score would have been bigger if the sailors had not become so overeager at times that they were penalized. Navy 31, Princeton...