Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor the First Democrat, Architect Pope has designed, the Commission and President Roosevelt have approved, a building bigger, taller and very much rounder than the Lincoln Memorial. For this building Architect Pope has simply cut the wings off his Mellon Museum and presented the Pantheon at Rome complete except that the original Corinthian capitals are changed to Ionic...
...Green's Pepper. Lines were drawn then & there between widow and sister, never good friends, for a legal fight that promises to be historic. To his little office above a grocery store in small Port Henry (pop. 2,040) came a bigger estate case than Surrogate Harry E. Owen had ever thought of in his 20 years on the bench. As administrator he appointed Essex County's youthful District Attorney, bulky, bespectacled Thomas W. McDonald...
...strewn with garlic shops, clothes lines and fish mongers. This place was recommened as being picturesque: it is all that, even down to the hotel porters, which by the way, are women. I was a bit embarrassed when at the ring of the bell a young girl not much bigger than the size of my bag came up, strapped the luggage on her back and was off three flights of stairs to my room. When I offered to help she was hurt. This is her job, she explained; and she does it with as much pride as I must...
Boulder Dam on the Colorado River is the world's biggest dam, but the Grand Coulee project on the Columbia River will be much bigger. This mighty barrier in the wild heart of Washington, 92 miles west of Spokane, will be not only the world's greatest but the costliest engineering job ever undertaken by man. The dam, power plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long...
...start from Newark and all will terminate there. Advantage: passengers to Boston save 20 min. ¶ Next to Newark, busiest U. S. airport is Chicago's Municipal Field. Chicagoans have long been upset by fear they might lose their air predominance because the airport was made hazardous to bigger planes by tracks of the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad across one end. For two years Mayor Edward J. Kelly has waged a battle to force the railroad out. Last week the two finally came to terms. The railroad agreed to move at once; Mayor Kelly agreed to spend some...