Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima) in the Volcano group, whence Jap fighters took off to harry 6-295 bombing Honshu, and whence Jap bombers took off to bomb the Superfort base at Saipan.* Later, when bases nearer to Japan had been won, Harmon could use 8-24 Liberators alongside their bigger cousins against the enemy homeland...
Confronted with this shakedown of big shots by big shots, the Government improved upon an old police practice-wheedling small-fry criminals into testifying against bigger ones. Now big shots squealed on big shots. Nicholas Schenck's brother Joe, imprisoned for income-tax evasion, informed on Browne and Bioff-and was soon paroled. A year ago, bored with the stuffy interior of the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Browne and Bioff squealed, too. Their words convicted the Chicago mob. Afterward, they were moved to the security of the "squealer's prison," a U.S. institution at Sandstone, Minn. Last week...
...last six months Eisenhower has not visibly aged (he is 54), but he gives a subtle impression of having grown bigger as a man and as a commander. For lack of exercise, he is slightly thicker around the middle and there are often tired lines under his snapping blue eyes. But he is very fit, has had no cold all winter. Even in times of crisis, he is relaxed, genial and confident on the surface-whatever goes on underneath...
People who make speeches are used to having their grammar corrected, by listeners who write in and tell them. Now these Citizen Fixits are being encouraged: a new radio program offers prizes for catching celebrities in grammatical slips. At present a menace no bigger than a man's hand, the program is strictly local, just a month old, already it draws 50-odd letters a week...
...intent of Section 101 (12) was to help the farmer, forced to sell his products at wholesale prices, but to buy what he needs at higher retail prices. Congress hoped to give farmers a bigger profit by helping them to sell at retail prices, i.e., eliminate the middleman through coops. This the co-ops have done well...