Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in history, under the influence of warm winter rains the White House lawn really needed to be mowed in January. Winter rains 600 miles to the west had a bigger influence on Washington politics. The Ohio-Mississippi flood had brought to the Capital an emergency atmosphere not unlike that of the early months of the New Deal. Congressmen once more hungered for Federal aid and Franklin Roosevelt resumed the prestige cf the Great White Father to whom all must appeal...
...seawall which the flood had topped, watched the muddy waters gradually sink back through the sewer gates as the river receded. Cincinnati, perched on its hills, up to its waist in water, felt the chilly flood fall slowly back, trembled as its gas mains were reported leaking,, a bigger fire menace than when gas tanks bobbed among its factories in the flood (TIME...
...Herbert J. Brees, commanding the Eighth Corps Area on the west bank of the Mississippi, was making preparations to evacuate eastern Arkansas and his troopers were busy setting up concentration camps. In the Fourth Corps Area, east of the Mississippi, Major General George Van Horn Moseley had an even bigger responsibility for on his bank are most of the big river cities, the once great steamboat towns: Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez, New Orleans. He divided his front into three sectors with headquarters at Nashville (which had its own high waters on the Cumberland), Jackson, Miss., and New Orleans...
...bigger than a page of newsprint), covers 1/40 of the visible sky at each exposure, shows about 400,000 stars on one plate. With this giant apparatus Dr. Cook intends to photograph the entire sky. After six months of precise adjustments, the camera got into action just before New Year's Day. Since then thick weather has ruined every night but a few for sky-map-ping, but last week three plates had been successfully exposed and developed. Thirty-seven more plates will be needed to mop up the Northern sky. Then...
...BELOVED FRIEND"-Catherine Drinker Bowen & Barbara von Meek-Random House ($3). Any musician runs the risk of being thought queer, but Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ran a bigger risk than most. Just how queer he actually became was related last week by Authors von Meek & Bowen, in a full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination...