Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enactment. Perhaps some intelligent alumnus, seeing the dire need for a new infirmary, will donate a successor to Stillman. Otherwise Dr. Bock together with the officers of the University will have to devise some plan for canvassing the alumni and friends of the University. Harvard needs a new, bigger, and more complete infirmary, and she needs...
Niles, who learned to ski in Switzerland, decried the Alpine skiing set-up is "exaggerated." "Everything over there is bigger," he said; "the altitude is higher, the snow conditions are on the average better, and there is much more room than over here...
...Simpson had raced to Washington by milk train and plane from Albany, after a night session of his State executive committee at which he had fought for the National Committee seat of Charles Dewey Hilles. retired. Mr. Simpson's failure to elect Tom Dewey by getting out a bigger New York City vote for him was one of the reasons the State committee was reluctant to nominate him for the national body. Other reason was the method he had chosen to get out such city votes as he did: he had "played ball" with the local American Labor Party...
...busy with fixing up the back yard and the basement to entertain company." Last week both back yard and basement had been fixed and the public was invited in to look it over. They saw three stories of offices, four auditorium studios (two of them with stages bigger than any other in radio), seven smaller studios. Each auditorium seat was upholstered in material as sound-absorbent as the average spectator and his clothes, to provide equal acoustical values for rehearsals in empty studios and broadcasts played to packed houses. (This trick was used earlier in Manhattan's Radio City...
...week in the brick-&-cement International Amphitheatre at Chicago's Union Stock Yards, Farmer Pierce was again on hand. Watching his best beef cattle collect only three prizes (a 4th, a 5th, a 13th), he mused sadly that Advance had won in "an easy walkaway" against heavier, higher, bigger and older animals. Then he waited, with the other cattle-conscious spectators squeezed into the Amphitheatre, for a decision on the championship his steer once held...