Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing as General Manager, the first Glyndebourne opera season was launched. It lasted two weeks; the audience for the opening performance numbered twelve. But Christie, Busch, Ebert and Bing were undiscouraged. The press gave them a big hand. In 1936 they enlarged their auditorium, planned a bigger season for the following year. By the end of the 1936 season they were playing to full houses. Last year, all of Glyndebourne's seats were sold before its seven-week season had begun...
...length for pure enjoyment, and they disclose a skill in workmanship and a knowledge of animal forms that is astounding. Many are cut on a curved surface so that the minute figures, such as the youth riding a dolphin, appear on the inside of a hollow no bigger than a walnut shell. They were signed by their artists, whose names were classed by the Greek writers with those of the great sculptors...
...wonderland where every one is Alice, Where the ladies' room is bigger than a palace, At the Roxy Music Hall...
...asked for bids on a ship such as the Dutch had never owned. She was to be of 36,000 tons, 750 feet overall-only half the size of such mammoths as the Normandie and Queen Mary, but one of the dozen biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy of the Van Ommern shipping firm, vetoed the idea of a Government subsidy. They...
...Ales Hrdlicka, 69, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, believes that as a person gets older his skull gets bigger, because of increasing brain size-at least if the person is intellectually active. He got one of his first confirmations of this theory from British Archeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, 80. Last week he reported receiving word of increasing head size from 58 professors, lawyers, ministers, financiers and writers, including three women...