Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belong to any church or actively practice any religion. Last week the best-organized drive in U. S. history to revive the nation's spiritual life was launched in Kansas City. If outward means could bring inward grace, the National Christian Mission was set to do it. Even bigger than the National Preaching Mission of 1936, the National Christian Mission will tour 23 cities before next Easter in its crusade to "reach the un-reached...
Pontiac eights will cost only $25 more than sixes this year. Because 1940 Torpedoes clicked so well, all '41s will be Torpedoes. Bigger windshields, improved brake drums, interior safety lights...
Former History 1 students may recall with pain the words "trivium" and "quadrivium." These constituted the standard curriculum at the medieval cathedral schools, a curriculum consisting of grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Since then higher education has gone on to bigger and better things. Today the Harvard course catalogue lists 53 departments and nearly 1000 courses, and the only commonbond between Harvard graduates is the ability to swim 50 yards...
...risks at Dakar were bigger than Charles de Gaulle figured. It was a harbor inside a bay, terribly confined for naval action. It was a town guarded by four forts and three regiments of about 7,000 French and Senegalese-wide-eyed Negro troops, some of whom had come back from France with bogy tales of German soldiers with wings that no Senegalese could reach so as to cut their ears off. The place was strengthened by five newly arrived pro-Vichy warships. Of the six which had escaped from Toulon and through Gibraltar without so much as a cough...
...holds performing rights to a mighty volume of sound: 1,270,000 musical compositions. Last week in San Francisco, at the word from Generalissimo Buck, ASCAP shock troops made a vigorous sortie. Their enemy was Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), formed by radio chains. Sooner than sign contracts to pay bigger fees for ASCAP tunes after next Jan. 1, the networks vow to use music from BMI, which by then will control 10,000 numbers. Melodious and wonderful was ASCAP's assault. At the San Francisco Fair, in its closing week, ASCAP gave two free concerts, the like of which...