Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...players in "Bigger than Barnum," Miss Jean Mode and Miss Patricia Neal, will assist in the judging. The feminine trio is expected to arrive at the Square at 4 o'clock. A modest parade of two automobiles and a truck will convey the actresses from Radcliffe down to the Yard, and thence will wend its way among the Houses, winding up outside the Pi Eta Club at 4:30 or 4:45 o'clock...
...America's most distinguished newspaper" bought space in other Manhattan dailies last week to do a bit of bragging, in bigger type than its editorial department ever uses: THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CIRCULATION HAS PASSED 1,000,000. The Times is now the seventh biggest Sunday paper in the land.* The Times could not refrain from pointing out, in its best morning-coat fashion, the difference between itself and other members of the Big Boys' club. It had reached its new high, said the Times, "without comics or other extraneous appeals...
...Bigger Fields, Greener Lands? Bill Hunt spent little time waiting around for Government business. If no plums came his way, he shook the tree, and none too gently. Shaking brought down these prizes...
...explain why Hunt was bowing out now. Some put it down to increasing exchange difficulties, the threat of China's new and retroactive company law (TIME, Nov. 26). Others thought the reputed $3 million sale price reason enough. Best explanation probably came from Hunt himself: somewhere he saw bigger fields and greener lands...
...Bigger & better tests are on the way. Later this month the Army plans to send an emasculated German V-2 a full 100 miles straight up over the White Sands, N.Mex., proving grounds...