Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wisdom, after being whipped through several night sessions by Majority Leader Barkley. who wanted this session of Congress to end some day, made an end of arguing. By 60-to-10 it passed a bill 1) rating Depression II as a $3,722,905,000 affair-$568,480,000 bigger than the House thought- 2) giving Franklin Roosevelt almost as free a hand in spending the money as he had asked...
...years. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Arnold was spry, young Walter Lyman Rice, only ten years out of Harvard Law but already a potent trustbuster. It was he and James Lawrence Fly who broke the Sugar Institute in 1933. Big as was that case, Lawyer Rice last week had a bigger one, probably the most important anti-trust suit the U. S. Government has ever brought. Its express object: to break up $236,000,000 Alcoa into several separate entities...
...Prague's 20 gas mask dispensaries where attractive blondes demonstrated the operating technique. "I bought a de luxe model for $6.68 with a head piece that seemed like a set of rubber false teeth, with goggle eyes and a dog-like nose. It had a snubbier nose and bigger eye pieces than the standard model for $3," prattled Mrs. Packard...
...demonstrating the wave nature of electrons. Some years ago, Astronomer Francois Charles Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory suggested that an electronic telescope (converting feeble starlight into electric current by means of photoelectric cells) could be built which would equal a 2,000-inch mirror telescope - ten times bigger than the 200-inch giant now being erected on a California mountain...
MOZART : SONATA IN D MAJOR FOR TWO PIANOS (K. 381), and CLEMENTI: SONATA No. 1 IN B FLAT MAJOR FOR Two PIANOS (Grace Castagnetta and Milton Kaye; Timely Recording Co., 1600 Broadway, Manhattan: 6 sides). Mozart has been recorded by bigger names, but seldom as well. Clementi, Mozart's contemporary, has been added for contrast...