Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incomes to twenty per cent of the writers. It was a union. It was a monopoly. It was a new kind of musical big bad wolf. But hadn't the broadcasters' revenue doubled? Hadn't they sunk a juicy $4,000,000 into BMI? Couldn't BMI become a bigger union and a badder monopoly...
...looks for the significance of 1) cranial changes in human evolution. 2) cranial differences among men today. The significance is harder to detect than the differences. Eskimos have bigger heads than white men but are little if any brighter. The three largest skulls on record belong to an Aleutian Islander (capacity: 2,005 c.c.), an Algonquin "contemporary" of Pocahontas (2,200 c.c.), Russian Novelist Ivan Turgenev (2,030 c.c.). Recently Dr. Hrdlička examined the heads of 150 members of the National Academy of Sciences, which the Smithsonian calls "one of the most distinguished intellectual groups in the world...
...America's greatest intellects have bigger and broader skulls" than do their fellow citizens. Larger skulls indicate larger brains...
...land improvements at a lower rate than land itself (40.1%); tax income from bond interest more than income from dividends (33.9%). Altogether 78% voted for at least one of the five incentive taxation proposals, more than 50% voted for two or more. If Business was willing to swallow more & bigger taxes, it also wanted a new conception of what taxes are all about...
...head start he wanted. Tank talk was turning to Diesels. The British Army, having gone into production on a 350-h.p. gasoline engine, was already designing a Diesel to replace it. Encouraged by such talk, S. A. Guiberson had Inventor Thaheld at work in Dallas on a bigger Diesel for heavy tanks...