Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawyer Marbury and Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut took an appalled look, secretly turned the documents over to the Department of Justice. Suddenly, Chambers was engulfed in something far bigger and infinitely uglier than his original controversy with Alger Hiss...
Another of man's big (and probably dumb) relatives turned up last week. Dr. Robert Broom, 83, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum, cabled to the University of California that he had found the gigantic teeth and massive lower jaw of an apeman far bigger than a modern gorilla. Dug out of a limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, the teeth and jaw are definitely human, rather than apelike. Their original owner (who will now be called "Swartkrans Man") must have looked something like the huge primates, Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus, whose teeth were found in Java and China some years...
Before the short (Nov. 1 to Dec. 15) season ends, Gros's three units will have staged 102 parades to a total audience of around 15 million. Said Gros joyfully: "Just like marionettes, only a hell of a lot bigger...
Sure enough, books came in from U.S. and British colleges for a new library (Caen would have one of the biggest collections of British and U.S. literature in France). Money had been promised by the French government for a new campus, bigger and better equipped than before...
...Neue Zeitung, the U.S. Military Government's prize package, is the New York Times of Germany. No paper has greater influence; only Die Welt (circ. 900,000), sponsored by the British military government, is bigger. The Zeitung subscribes to A.P., U.P., I. N.S. and Reuters, and most of its six oversized pages are devoted to news and thoughtful comment on world events; even a good Munich murder has to fight for space. Until the Russians banned Western zone publications last summer, the Zeitung sold 300,000 copies in the Soviet zone alone. Now its circulation (at 6? a copy...