Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adelaide, Australia, there was even bigger news than Mr. Scullin's sunstroke. The three-year rain scarcity which has cursed South Australia with meagre grain crops suddenly gave way to what joyous editors headlined as "Splendid Rains...
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...
...inverted microscope onto a film coated with the Goldberg emulsion it is claimed that 100 novels could be printed on one postcard and a man could carry his library in his billfold. A spy could carry a photograph of a campaign map on a piece of paper no bigger than a beauty spot...
...with trailing sleeves, suggestive of angel's wings. Thus decked out, with outspread arms, rolling eyes and a wide, sweet smile she may again have occasion to shout: "They thought that with me out of the way Angelus Temple would collapse, and it didn't, and it's going bigger than ever before. The Four-Square Gospel carries en! Hallelujah...
...greatest cause of the deficit's increase. That expense will not recur. And the new building has 21 floors of office space from which rentals are calculated to help defray the expenses of the big auditorium downstairs where, too, the increased number of seats means bigger takings at the box office. Last season 306,018 persons paid to see the curtain rise, compared to 272,006 in the old house the year before. Receipts totaled $1,230,224 as against $948,469 in 1928-29. Average price of tickets rose 53¢?from $3.49 to $4.02. "Unfortunately," mused President Insull...