Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost $12 to $28 a day, American plan, to stay at one of the bigger hotels in the Bermuda Hotel Assn. (president: Sir Howard Trott). This was less than Miami or Nassau charge, but far more than people paid in Bermuda's prewar horse & buggy days. Some of the fanciest price-boosting had occurred along Hamilton's staid Front and Queen Streets. Trimingham Bros, asked $24.24 for English flannel slacks that sold prewar...
...Colombian politicos did not seem disturbed by the virtual shutdown on wildcatting. Their country was bigger than Venezuela, they reasoned, with coffee, gold and other cash products besides oil. Many even argued that an oil boom would hinder the country's all-round development, and pointed to oil-rich Venezuela's deficient agriculture and industry for proof. "What will Venezuela have to show for lying supine before the drillers?" snapped a young Colombian oil-ministry bureaucrat. "Holes, that...
...Franciscans were already thinking about something else, too. The tombola was just a warmup for a bigger doing next year. Monteux calls it "a sort of celebration of my 15th year in San Francisco and my 75th year in the world...
When Communists organize rallies, Catholic Action organizes bigger ones. At a recent demonstration in Rome, Catholic Action provided the loudspeakers, the spectators' platforms, the slogans, the music, the buses, boats and trains that carried out-of-towners to the city. It even organized the housewives to pack box lunches and send their husbands to the meeting. It was typical of Catholic Action's zealous exuberance that brown-robed Franciscan monks climbed on lamp posts and snapped pictures of the rally. Catholic Action speakers frequently engage Communist leaders in public debates. One of the most tireless debaters...
Mimno will soon finish building a parabolic steel reflector in Lexington. Bigger than the average House living-room, the reflector will aim radio waves as an automobile headlight aims light rays...