Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stifled the Puritan attack and has kept its end zone unsullied for the whole season to date. With Backs Hy Brodgen and Bill Garrett and Guard John Wolf benched by injuries from Tuesday's clash, the Navy team was excusing itself after the game, for not running up a bigger score...
When the Admiral arrived in Washington, D.C., the Navy had gathered up 5,000 troops, a half-dozen bands, artillery and captured Japanese equipment for a parade to end parades, had gassed up a thousand airplanes to fly overhead. The show pulled a bigger house than either Generals Eisenhower or Wainwright-more than a million people cheered from the sidewalks...
...resumption of Jap industrial production is still 98% in the talk stage. The question of production is also tied in with the bigger one: what shall be done with the great industrialists, the zaibatsu? Certainly, the trust situation is worse here than even in Germany. Everybody tells tales about the zaibatsu's imperialism, their bludgeoning of competitors, their profiteering. But there is no documentation, probably because, as a French journalist, just released from internment, said: "Really important things were known only to a handful of men, those who did them, and they won't tell...
Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo got on the mark for another senatorial filibuster (30 days if necessary), visualized himself as the savior of $250 million in public funds by killing a freight-rate bill. A succeeding vision: a bigger & better Capitol to be built with the $250 million. He was "ashamed," he said, of the present "old, dilapidated, dirty Capitol," insisted that Cuba's was better and that the county courthouse back home in Mississippi had Washington's beat for comfort and convenience...
...still fairly strong. Reason: the plate that goes across the turtle's belly holds the sides of the shell together, keeps the turtle's house from caving in under pressure. The same kind of brace under the floors of arched-roofed hangars and arenas makes bigger and safer buildings possible...