Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teams bothered to play in the U. S., even the families of the players would probably not find time to watch them. Germany's blind devotion to sport was emphasized last week less by the fact that this encounter was watched by a crowd of 100,000, much bigger than any that has ever witnessed the World Series, than by the fact that almost no one in it had any idea what was going...
...Elsie de Wolfe Inc., international interior decorators, rushed out last week photographs of their Lady Mendl (nee de Wolfe) standing beside King Edward's private plane, but the story got ahead of them, grew bigger than their publicity. They wanted only to point out that Lady Mendl, after decorating the flat of the King's Mrs. Simpson, was recently brought from Paris in the King's plane to lunch with His Majesty at Sunningdale and there commissioned to decorate this rural snuggery. 27 miles from London. Last week the taste of U. S.-born Mrs. Simpson...
...mention that co-operatives are "even bigger business in Britain. ... It has a $700,000,000 bank...
...state system of 324,000 miles of primary highways, of which only one-half is hard surface, between towns. Usually considered the world's finest network, it is really, according to Expert McClintock, an inadequate, unscientific hodgepodge. Sole idea behind most of the system was to have bigger, harder roads. These inevitably caused more accidents. Less than 1% provide what experts now recognize as a fundamental necessity - automatic means to correct the driver's mistakes. Nearly 97% of the primary system, which today carries 65% of U. S. traffic, is two-lane high way, standard 15 years...
...Charles Holmes, who could never understand how "a man of such essential goodness could have amassed a fortune in the City," Collector Oppenheimer became himself an expert. For his own collection, he bought nothing but famed, time-honored drawings of unquestioned value, finally had to move to a bigger house to get all his art possessions under one roof...