Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest commercial art gallery in the world put on a show last week. The show's opening reception, in a huge duplex suite on uptown Fifth Avenue, drew 5,800 art lovers. But bigger news than the show was the commercial success of the Associated American Artists' Galleries. The attraction at the opening was an exhibition of recent paintings by Thomas Hart Benton. The splash that it made was a demonstration of the fact that able mechanizing methods have, for one group of artists, made art for art's sake a paying business for the first time...
California, here we come. Can you raise bigger nuts than South Dakota...
...Even bigger and faster battleships are on the way, probably will not begin to join the Fleet before 1943. On order are seven 45,000-tonners, designed to better the North Carolina's speed by several knots. Still on the drafting boards are plans for five even bigger ones. These undoubtedly will have even more gun power, at least equal armor protection. Whether they will be as fast as the North Carolina is still a moot point...
...objectives meet of the season are the elimination races for the coveted McMillan trophy, emblematic of college yachting supremacy. Unlike the other races, this will be sailed in boats bigger than dinghies. At Annapolis, where the Harvard crews are entered on May 24 and 25, the boats used will be 18 footers, and the finals will be run off at Marblehead after New London in the M-B class sloops...
...lawyer's speech the play shifts from art to propaganda. For obviously the true defense of Bigger would lie in considering the actions of the neurotic victim of his accidental crime. But the play's propaganda, like its art, is telling...