Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolff, Harvard '29, magna cum laud in anthropology, set up his school in Beck Hall in 1930, but soon had to move to bigger quarters. Large and generally unshaven, he shouts his lectures, throws erassers at sleepy students tells stories about Peter his pet champanzee and despite official disapproval--gets most of Harvard's patronage...
Electric lights failed when the current went off, and thus you were just the tools of Mr. Insull or Mr. Hopson. The bigger and shinier and faster you automobile was the more apt you were to get bamped off unpleasantly. A medieval arquebus was much more decent. It was all a lot of rot--modern existence. I was insistent. I was almost a Miniver Cheevy...
Revenues- To balance the budget on this new scale of governmental living requires a bigger income. The Government's receipts for 1936, 1937 and 1938 as estimated in the budget...
...winners: 1) Shirley Temple 2) Clark Gable 3) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 4) Robert Taylor 5) Joe E. Brown 6) Dick Powell 7) Joan Crawford 8) Claudette Colbert 9) Jeanette MacDonald 10) Gary Cooper Shirley Temple's margin over her nearest rival was bigger this year than last. New names among this year's first ten were Taylor, MacDonald and Cooper. Demoted, to the next group of 15 "honor stars," were James Cagney and Wallace Beery. The late Will Rogers...
...years the cartel by which world tin production is determined. Set for the first quarter of 1937 were production quotas at what the International Tin Committee calls "standard 100%," practically identical with 1929 production (192,000 tons). Siam, which nearly broke up the agreement last year by demanding a bigger quota, came into line with an allotment of 18,000 tons yearly. Other annual quotas: Britain's Malay Peninsula, 71,940 tons; Britain's Nigeria, 10,890 tons; Dutch East Indies, 36,330 tons; Bolivia, 46,490 tons. The Belgian Congo, however, was given 13,200 instead...