Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Jones's "I have not yet begun to fight," better, certainly, than Commodore George Dewey's pale and measured, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." They mirrored the tempo of 1942's savage fighting, they caught the spirit of a confident U.S.: the bigger they are the harder they fall...
...Jimmy Byrnes, who combines his liberalism with hardheaded native conservatism and has friends on both sides of the political railroad tracks, had an unpublicized job that was even bigger. On the home front he was rapidly becoming assistant president, with a clear hand to smooth ruffled party tempers, to compromise and persuade in Congress, to figure out where the Administration had got off track with public opinion. If the New Deal party could be cured of its sickness through adroit poulticing, Jimmy Byrnes was the ideal physician...
...holds them (a bigger problem) by filling up his inside, well-illustrated pages with snappy editorials, features and intimate, gossipy domestic (mostly Wiehle family) news, all of which he does himself...
Instead of trying to raise money each month, the Treasury will from here on out have bigger concentrated campaigns at two-month intervals. Securities sold in the $9 billion issue will be tailored to every type of investor. Commercial banks, investment houses and dealers will be organized into selling teams, and commercial banks have been warned that the amount of securities they will have to absorb depends directly on the success of the public campaign...
This is the year that Crimson hockey followers have been awaiting with bated breath. Too long has the sextet been rumbling along in its customary cellar slot in the Pentagonal League, and Coach John Chase, in his first full year as puck mentor, has his eye on bigger game...