Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman, Georgia's serious, bespectacled Robert Ramspeck has sweated hard and long for civil service and fair labor legislation. Through it all he has been a loyal New Dealer. Last week, partly as a reward and partly because his chunky shoulders could take it, he got a bigger job. Beaming with pleasure, grey-shocked Majority Leader John W. McCormack tapped him to be Democratic whip, to succeed Pennsylvania's late Patrick J. Boland...
Furthermore, U.S. carriers are bigger, have more hitting power than their Japanese counterparts. Example: the Lexington had 90 planes, almost as many as the Kaga and Akagi combined. Thus, while the loss of a single carrier may hit the U.S. harder than a similar loss hits Japan, three or four U.S. carriers in the Pacific would outweigh the known remainder of the Japanese fleet in plane power...
...they were preludes, most of the signs appeared on the way to Moscow. Near Kalinin, northwest of the capital, the Germans claimed 1,500 Russian dead, 2,000 prisoners. "Frontline corrections," the Nazi communiqués called these engagements, suggesting preparations for something bigger. The Russians, confirming action in this area but suggesting nothing, said they killed 5,730 Germans. To the south, where the Russians had failed to take Kharkov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's forces tightened their hold on positions very near the city. But holding on was all they attempted last week. In the Baltic, at Leningrad...
...cause to crow last week. It signed a first-class commentator for September delivery. NBC's new man was old to radio-Mutual's purring, precise Raymond Gram Swing, who saw in NBC a chance for a bigger audience, a bigger salary...
...bigger and stronger Bill Wilson appears ready to give the Crimson a good running threat at tallback, and Wayne Johnson should step into the fullback role without much trouble. At the blocking and wingback positions, however, there were no standout performers in the spring drills. A talented Freshman might break into the starting lineup in one of those two positions early next fall...