Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thunder-bolting eagles on its sides. Away it shot over the concave precipice of the ship's square bow; faltered, lifted, droned away. The rest of the Lexington's planes followed, at 15 to 30-second intervals. Away from their carriers, against the sky, the planes looked bigger, changed from bees to birds. As they took their close-packed, triad formations, the ocean changed to a duck-marsh, with here wedges of swift teal (the fighters), here a group of bigger black duck (scouts), and there a string of geese (the bombers). In about a half-hour enough...
...north to Brownsville on the south as it does to go from New York to Key West. Leader Garner gave his own figures: "Texas would make 220 States the size of Rhode Island, 54 the size of Connecticut, six the size of New York. Texas is four times bigger than the combined New England States. . . . With an estimated population of 5,600,000 Texas ranks fifth among the States, being exceeded only by New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio. ..." Such a split-up of Texas into five States the size of Arkansas fired Mr. Garner's political imagination...
...statistics released today on the fields of concentration selected by the class of 1933 show that Economics takes a bigger lead than ever before as the preferential field. Last fall figures on the three upper classes in the college showed the same situation. Is it that Economics has replaced English as the reputed easy field? Or is the desire to be well prepared for business leading men into this now popular branch of education...
...artists sometimes worry about U.S. art, wonder why it is not bigger & better, why so many U. S. artists have been expatriates, literally or in spirit. Critic Josephson here collects a formidable array of case histories: James Whistler, Lafcadio Hearn, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Henry Adams, Henry Harland, Stuart Merrill, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein...
...Morrow then told the Newark audience: "If he'd spoken to me after a luncheon like this, the telephone bill would have been a great deal bigger for I would have gone into more detail as to just how all right Jersey...