Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just the same, somebody in the Administration wanted a bigger club. Into an obscure naval bill last June someone sneaked an amendment authorizing the President to commandeer "any existing manufacturing plant or facility necessary for the national defense." Congress passed the bill, the President signed it. Then sleepy Representatives awoke to what they had done, angrily tacked a repealer clause to a pending defense appropriation bill. Somehow, on the bill's way through the Senate, the repealer clause vanished. Result: the President still had his big club regardless of the fate of the Overton-Russell amendment...
...reciting nasty verses, bootlegged pistols to his schoolmates. His crowning escapade was a clandestine prize fight he staged to raise money to buy a motorcycle. Having primed his second to soak his gloves with water so that he could hit his opponent harder, Chanler went six rounds against a bigger boy before 150 delighted schoolmates (who paid $1 each), was knocked out in the seventh when his gloves got so heavy he could scarcely lift them. The Rector summoned Chanler, ordered him to return the spectators' money. Almost to a boy, the they insisted they had got their money...
Last month Professor Rugg, looking harassed and unhappy, rose before summer students at Teachers College, denounced "witch hunting." Cried he: "Those who say that we don't believe in private enterprise lie!" Meanwhile Professor Rugg's publishers, Ginn & Co., announced that fall orders for Rugg books were bigger this year than last...
...turfmen, the arrival of Bahram was big news. But bigger still was the news that his new owners were not the Wideners, Woodwards and Whitneys who usually import great European stallions, but a syndicate of four young men, all under 35: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sylvester Labrot Jr., James Cox Brady Jr. and Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Alfred Vanderbilt is no tyro at either raising or racing thoroughbreds. Six years ago, on his 21st birthday, he inherited his mother's magnificent stud farm and racing stable, invested half a million or more in Pimlico and Belmont Park race tracks...
...York's fair still suffered from sub-estimate attendance. With 9,600,000 paying guests clocked to date, Banker Gibson expected 17,000,000 for the full season, against earlier estimates of 25,000,000 plus. But revenues were bigger than expenses, and bondholders, who watched the 1939 World of Tomorrow wind up leaving them $23,983,000 in the hole, may eventually get back 25 to 35% of their investment (counting interest payments as principal...