Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will tell me, of course, that Morgan was bigger news than Benet, and that a newsmagazine prints the news. Yet I think that America and American journalism would do itself proud if it would listen now & then to its poets...
...dumped 900 tons of bombs on Berlin, double the tonnage ever dropped on London in one raid, greater than Berlin experienced in its last raid March 1. That raid, according to Swedish press correspondents, killed 2,000 and damaged many important buildings, including Luftwaffe headquarters. This one was bigger. Aside from morale and Government buildings, Berlin offered important industrial targets: Europe's largest brake factory in suburban Lichtenberg, the huge concentration of iron, steel, electrical-equipment, locomotive and tank factories at Spandau, aircraft and chemical plants in other suburbs. The first Swedish reports indicated that the industrial areas felt...
...everything before them. They pushed through the Lowlands and France to Dunkirk. The weapon Germany's enemies had neglected between wars seemed to be irresistible. The U.S. hurriedly withdrew its few light tanks from the cavalry and infantry and used them as a nucleus for an Armored Force. Bigger guns were mounted on bigger tanks (while U.S. factories in a prodigious tank program poured out earlier, obsolete models). Still heavier armor and welded construction appeared. By 1943, the U.S. Armored Force had burgeoned to 14 divisions...
...April 12, said Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week, the U.S. Treasury will begin an outsize financing campaign even bigger than last December's huge war-bond drive. The goal this time: $13 billion, $4 billion more than in December...
...toilers who alone could bring them about. Through good weather and bad, in sickness, defeat, in agony of spirit and against the dull weight of ignorance and fear, the soul of each man must be nourished to undertake of his own free will works which in their total are bigger than the slave-built wall of China and in their daily demands as warming as the building of a home. Coercion cannot order the materials; bombast cannot inspire the efforts; the fear of death cannot release the imagination's shortcuts or bring about the emotions' quick ability...