Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening its 1945 spring season, Coach Floyd Stahl's varsity nine set out against the Naval, Air Base at Quonset, R. I., only to come back beaten 15 to 3 by an older, bigger, and more experienced Quonset squad. Although 13 of the fliers' runs were earned, fanlty fielding acted as a lead weight on the pitching arm of Jack Wallace...
Last week, U.S. editors had much bigger news to report quickly, but with far better mechanical facilities. The public was hungry for details. Said Ivan Annenberg, circulation manager of Manhattan's Daily News: "In all my years of newspapering, I have never seen papers sold so fast." Newspapermen had long since conceded radio's advantage in speed. They had almost forgotten how it felt to sell "extras." But this time it was different...
...England Family. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Mass., in the days when Amherst, with 260 students, was a bigger college than Harvard. Her father was Edward Dickinson, a leading lawyer and the college treasurer. He was a narrow-eyed, frozen-faced, unbending New Englander, who ran the town, the college, and his family with unconscious mastery. It was not that he was obviously domineering: it just never occurred to people to oppose him. When a photographer, alarmed at his stern expression, timidly asked him to smile, the squire thundered: "I am smiling...
...Bigger hits of the Civil War: The Battle Cry of Freedom, Hard Crackers Come Again No More; bigger World War I hits: Over There, Tipperary...
...general have been much like Dr. Mitchell. Citizens of the "spoiled child of American cities," they have always tended to overlook their distinctions as well as their oddities. Prosperous from the start, with fourscore cottages in its first year (1683), at the time of the Revolution Philadelphia was bigger than any English city except London. It was once the headquarters of the Revolution, once the capital of the Republic, once the banking, theatrical and art center of North America. It still contains more trees than any other city on earth, and leads the world in the manufacture of false teeth...