Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tarnished grandeur, Britain still had elbow grease for bigger jobs than Covent Garden. Burly Ernie Bevin was one link between the two. As he left, a dowager spotted him and cried: "There he is! I must touch him." She had to stretch...
This week Tom Benton showed up in Chicago again-with a one-man exhibition which he described as a "plain bid for Chicago's approval." The country boy had not grown much bigger with the years, but he was twice as cocky...
...charged that the President's friends "resented keenly the fact. . . I told the truth." Ominously recalling the scandal of Teapot Dome, he stormed: "This kind of political pressure spiritually wrecked the Republican Party in the days of Secretary [Albert] Fall." He warned "of a cloud, now no bigger than a man's hand, that my . experience sees in the sky"- the cloud of political corruption...
...despite all obstacles, the tests should go ahead on schedule. A delay of only a few weeks might force postponement until next year, because of unpredictable weather conditions in the Marshalls after July. The test might never come off-further postponement could always be urged on the ground of bigger bombs or better instruments just around the corner...
...miniature set is a descendant of the famous proximity fuse-which was a complete transmitter-receiver in the nose of a 5-inch shell. Part of the secret is the dwarfish tubes, no bigger than lima beans. Part is the system of "wiring." Instead of the conventional radio's bulky tangle of wires, designers used lines of silver-bearing ink, printed accurately through a stencil on a small ceramic plate. The "resistors" are printed too, in carbon ink. The condensers are paper-thin discs of ceramics, silver-coated on both sides and stuck on the plate. Even the coils...