Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio's other hopefuls were drooping on the vines, too. When the high-priced September to May regulars (Jack Benny, Bob Hope, et al) went vacationing, their topflight writers and producers went too. Summer's second-drawer big names had second-drawer scripts. Some of the resulting bigger busts...
...time, thousands of devout Roman Catholics were calling daily on the college porter, praying with him and leaving gifts of money. In 1896 the first chapel was built on a plot opposite the college. Later a bigger one was built, still later a third. Today the $6,000,000 Oratory of Saint Joseph is a great, concrete-domed structure topped with a neon-lighted cross that towers over Canada's "City of Churches." Ecclesiastical tribunals are already at work in Montreal, Providence, R.I., Ottawa, and St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, checking evidence and proceeding with the first steps that may lead...
Obsequial Engineer. Businessmen have hastened to take advantage of the general, linguistic license. Deeply characteristic of American life, says Mencken, is the desire of the little man to make himself sound bigger, of the common man to make himself uncommon. (Even in the 18th Century, small New England shopkeepers had ditched the British shop in favor of the more grandiose store.) U.S. undertakers have fought and won a hundred-years' war to sweeten the sound of their macabre occupation. Today, after relatives have consulted with an obsequial engineer, the so-called patient (who may in his lifetime have been...
...power was the climax of a 150-year trend in which armies grew bigger & bigger, and supplies of materiel per soldier grew even faster. Basic U.S. superiority was measured in such figures as 100,000 planes (far more than all the rest of the world's), 737 billion railroad ton miles (half of all the world's), 60,000,000 tons of shipping (two-thirds of all the world's). These symbols of bulk power no longer had the same significance...
Fellow-townsmen took sides. Little Shelby accused bigger David City (pop. 2,272) of stealing Duren's thunder with the Nichols show. The artists themselves took up prepared positions behind cornstalks, and blazed away. Nichols: "I shall never be guilty of painting in the style or viewpoint of Terence Duren. Never! Never!" Duren: "It is easy to recognize that Mr. Nichols cannot draw people . . . save at the safe distance at which he conceals all lack of knowledge of anatomical detail. I concur heartily: Mr. Nichols will never draw or paint like I do. Never...