Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made intermittently and hit-or-missly for two years. This was the Business. It differed in technique and, above all, it differed in scale from all British bombing that went before. It compared with Hitler's blitz on Britain in the fall of 1940 -only it was bigger...
...might happen. Britain finally had the tools. Its factories were in good production, and the Air Ministry had only recently announced that U.S. bombers were arriving in the British Isles at a tremendous rate. Planes were bigger. So were bombs. And the defense of Germany in these first few days was not to be compared with the tremendous fight put on by the youngsters of the R.A.F...
...Hurricanes are helped by bigger fellows-light and medium bombers, big enough to carry more bombs, yet handy enough to work close to the ground. They work by daylight, too. At dusk the big guns go out-four-motored Stirlings and Halifaxes with better than 10,000 pounds of bombs in their bays. They can range far across Germany, will probably range farther before the summer...
...Auburn Street's squat, bald, Packard-driving Benny Jacobson, owner of the Gold Coast Valeteria, is here at Harvard to stay. This is the place where he always wanted to be, so he's sticking. "I've had lots of opportunities to leave for much bigger jobs, but I couldn't do it. It's my life, here at Harvard," says Benny. Already, in less than six years he has become more a part of Harvard than some of its aging Professors, and he'll defend it, too belligerently at times, against any comer, whether from Yale or City Hall...
...bootleg business is already more diversified, if not bigger, than it was in Prohibition's peephole days. To the still ample take from bathtub gin and moonshine* has been added the take from tires, scarce metals, chemicals, textiles, typewriters-even stockings...