Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia the crowd was bigger, standing five deep at the station gate, waving small American flags. Dewey went straight to a press conference at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, riding in an open car at the head of a 25-car motorcade. Going down Broad Street, there was a brief shower of ticker tape, no big, organized confetti cascade. In the afternoon, Dewey paid the necessary visit to Independence Hall, required of all political candidates...
...typical campaign of World War II has yielded substantial tactical returns-at a cost far lower to the attacker than to the defender.* And the campaign of 1944, to date, outshines its predecessors. It is a campaign each of whose parts has been a successful subcampaign, fitting into a bigger pattern...
Scottish distilleries have made no whiskey since war began, but in Britain, the Empire, North & South America the thirst for Scotch has grown bigger & bigger...
...Navy is bigger today than the combined fleets of all the world five years ago; is undoubtedly more than twice as big as the British Fleet. Since war began in Europe, the U.S. Navy has multiplied its warships more than three times...
...hope & fear. Anyone could see that Jerry was licked. But though he could not win by it, he was slamming over every flying bomb he had on hand before the Allied troops swept him out of France, took his launching sites. Soon he might be sending over even bigger, deadlier robombs from sites in the Low Countries or Germany. Said Health Minister Henry U. Willink, standing amid ruins...