Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barbara Negley of Pittsburgh erected there a tiny wooden edifice which was called the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. In 1848 her son-in-law Judge Thomas Mellon helped the same parish build a bigger wooden building, and in 1864 he contributed toward a two-story brick structure. In 1888 Judge Mellon had a share in the construction of the fourth East Liberty Presbyterian Church, a stone house of worship accommodating 1,600, which still exists...
...someone get me a sandwich?" She got bigger jobs quickly, went on the road for a while. After rehearsing for an hour, she stepped into the leading part in High Stakes (1925). As Lou in The Barker, she won fame, a cinema contract and a husband (Norman Foster). Her first pic- ture, For the Love of Alike (silent), did not please her; she gave up the idea of a cinema career until talking pictures came in. Cast with Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (not yet released), she taught him one word of U. S. slang per day, explaining what...
Merger. Last week stockholders of Phelps-Dodge Corp. held their annual meeting, learned two important things. First was that Walter Douglas, president since 1917, will resign and be succeeded by Louis Shattuck Gates, vice president of Utah Copper Co. Second was that Mr. Gates may soon head a much bigger company, for engineers are inspecting the properties of Phelps-Dodge and Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. to decide on the advantages of a merger...
...fall and winter-their time for big meals, things to drink, late sleeping, being with the family, making a little money on the side. But now you may walk into a pullman car on one of the overland limiteds and see a bunch of them sitting around, looking bigger in their store clothes than on the field, sunburned from the Florida training season, playing bridge or poker, drinking charged water or ginger ale with nothing in it. For last week the big league ball season opened. Enthusiasts throughout the land agree or disagree on the probable showing...
...Story smoked a corncob pipe, watching the tug Eveleth pick up the schooner to tow her to Gloucester. Five generations of Storys, tall, spare, taciturn, have built fishing boats at the same deep crook in the stream called the Essex River . . . little Chebacco Boats, Heel Tappers and Pinkeys, the bigger boats of the 1850's, the 1890's. Like other Massachusetts builders, he thinks of racing as he sees a boat grow, but builds it for work. No fishing schooner races before it has gone fishing. The twist of the water on the boat's underbody loosens...