Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What they say is 'Oh, those poor British people, think of their families.' " >-"Let us avoid getting into tight corners and above all quit experimenting and trying to pull ourselves by our bootstraps with anesthetic, money-wasting measures, only to get from one hole into a bigger one. ... It will be futile 'for the U. S. to enter the war for she will be too late." ^ The U. S. must prepare to cooperate "economically and spiritually" with Germany on a "barter basis-the only basis Germany now knows, because she was forced to employ the barter system...
Almost everyone knows that U. S. college freshmen have grown taller and heavier for a long time. The increase goes back 80 or 90 years, shows an inch of stature gain for each of four generations. Girls have grown longer-legged, bigger-waisted, smaller-hipped. They also have reached puberty earlier, a sign of faster growth...
...Carnegie Hall, bigger and costlier to hire...
...Pancho Villa once held an attack until baseball's World Series was over, to get a bigger play in the U. S. press...
...anti-Wall Street financier, Chicago's pro-competitive-bidding Halsey, Stuart & Co. More recently, via the mails and letters-to-the-editor, he has offered intellectual aid to both Presidential candidates. As a Willkie-man he suggested that the New Deal is vulnerable for having made Big Business bigger, at the expense of Small. As a Rooseveltman he called Willkie the Wall Street candidate, dug up historical precedents for a Third Term...