Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cabinet saw the point. The military budget for the last quarter of 1945 was whacked by about 12 billion francs. Next year, it was reported, the cut would be even bigger-perhaps as much as 100 billion...
...solicitude for the nation's youngest men, on the one hand, and its promises to "bring the boys back home" on the other, Congress was likely to get snarled up. Best guess about what it would do: Selective Service would be continued; bigger inducements would be held out to volunteers. (The Army started this week to put out new-style posters...
Thunderbolt. How much sales of small private planes will put in the industry's pocket is still anybody's guess. But it might be far bigger than gloomy Guses have predicted. Example: when the Government put on sale 5,000 surplus small planes, some 40,000 people bid for them...
Another head-shape fallacy was exploded last week by the University of Illinois dental school. Doctors have long supposed that an individual's head shape changes considerably as he grows up. But Illinois X-ray studies showed that while an infant's head bones and bumps grow bigger, their relative proportions remain virtually unchanged throughout life. Thus, from an X-ray photograph of a newborn infant's head, it is possible to sketch approximately how he will look as an adult...
...leisurely, kindly story of life among Scandinavian-blooded Wisconsin farmers. Farmer Jacobson (Edward G. Robinson) has set his heart on building a finer barn than he can afford, but the needs of his own family and the burning of the barn of a prosperous neighbor (Morris Carnovsky) give him bigger and better ideas. His somewhat selfish daughter (Margaret O'Brien) loves a calf named Elizabeth, but her neighbor's misfortune inspires her to give up Elizabeth-an act which dissolves the whole countryside in similar generosity. One glowing convert is a city-bred schoolteacher (Frances Gifford...