Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintenance of $696 yearly, totaling $3,696. The salary of the Navy's aviation lieutenants, senior grade (corresponding to the Army captain) is minimum basic pay of $2,400, a flying bonus of 50%, and single maintenance of $939, totaling $4,539. In both services, married men get bigger maintenance, old-timers receive slightly higher salaries. But transport pilots for huge airlines receive as much as $500 a month, equivalent to the remuneration of the Navy's admirals, the Army's generals...
...Created bigger, better machinery to collect unemployment statistics...
Inside, offices for Justices and Court officials are grouped around garden courtyards. The Supreme Courtroom at the extremity is 64 ft. square, 30 ft. high, 60% bigger than the Court's present quarters. In the library stack rooms and two open shelf rooms, space is provided for 526,760 volumes. But the building will be plain. Said Mr. Gilbert: "There has been no intention of finishing the interior . . . with elaborate and expensive marble-work and excessive decoration, the design rather relying upon fine proportions and simplicity for the monumental effect desired...
...Woodrow Wilson a war between the former allies seems an impossibility like the invasion of Belgium in 1914. Such people need to be reminded that Italy fore up the scrap of paper binding her to the Central Powers and joined the Entente in 1915 solely because she could obtain bigger territorial promises than by remaining faithful to her own allies...
...release from the serious things in life and who now go out to occupy some small job, and he also passes over those who have prepared for the break with some careful thinking. The group he discusses is that one that has the "sheepskin blues". It is the bigger group and contains many of the prominent and popular men of the class. It contains those who "are blue because they do not know what they want to do, and bluest when they discover that their unpreparedness is a handicap in the location...