Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After such aspersions, the committee felt obliged to call the Professor in person. Small, well-brushed and jaunty, his pince-nez sparkling in 40 flashlights, he appeared. The audience could not have been bigger or more enthusiastic had he been Shirley Temple. With some acerbity he questioned the propriety of Senators publicly examining a nominee for the nation's highest court.* With feeling he told how his father, a Viennese Jew, had "fallen in love" with America on a business trip, brought his family over...
...hitherto narrow Rebel corridor to the sea was widened to about 115 miles and contained the additional advantage of a good port at which Rebel supplies brought direct from Italy could be unloaded. And Loyalist Catalonia, jammed with 6,500,000 inhabitants and refugees, shrank to an area little bigger than that of Massachusetts...
Once a shy, retiring sport, deep-sea angling has become one of the most glamorous, gregarious sports in the U. S. Once content to catch a big fish and talk about it forevermore, today a deep-sea angler wants to keep on catching a bigger fish than his neighbor, yearns to break a record -or at least see his picture in the papers alongside the monster he has conquered...
...famous than the hotel for which they were named.* By the time the second Ezra J. Warner died in 1933, Sprague Warner was a far-flung manufacturing and wholesale house, as prestigious as Manhattan's Charles & Co. or Boston's S. S. Pierce, and a good deal bigger than either...
Last week the merger was a reality. Engineered by clever Tom Dennehy, who became president of the new Sprague Warner, it gave both companies what they most needed. Harry and Maxwell Kunin (who became secretary-treasurer and vice president) got bigger manufacturing and distributing facilities, the prestige of Sprague Warner's name. Sprague Warner got the Kunins. Nobody put up any money. To reports that he had bought out Sprague Warner, Harry Kunin replied: "Where the hell would I lay my hands...