Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashionable Grosse Pointe suburb to raise funds, and did his campaigning by driving around the state with his wife Nancy, in a beat-up old De Soto convertible. He benefited by Michigan labor's determined espousal of the Democratic cause, but never managed to draw a crowd bigger than 350 people. Last week as the votes came in, Soapy Williams seemed fully as surprised as Kim Sigler...
...Coach Elmer Madar, who has scouted Brown in its last three outings against Connecticut, Rutgers, and Western Reserve, ranked the Bruins on a par with Dartmouth and reported that its line was bigger than Harvard's and faster than the Holy Cross forward wall. Finn, brother of Harvard's 1947 game captain and guard Jim Feinberg, did not have to take to the air except against Rutgers, and then his passing was impressive...
...boost up the evolutionary ladder. At one time, Dart had called them Australopithecus (southern ape). Now he wishes that he had named them Homunculus (little man). They appear to have been brainy beyond their size and times. Their brainpans (650 cc) were almost as big as those of their bigger (5 ft. 8 in.) contemporaries, the Men of Java...
...Shelton, in a Peoria hotel room. Also present were "Big Earl" Shelton and two of his henchmen. Earl was anxious to know who had killed Bernie and Carl (who had been murdered a year ago), and whether his number was up too. Link and the Post-Dispatch had a bigger interest in the case: they wanted to find out if Illinois gamblers had killed Bernie and if they had connections with Governor Green's machine...
...Brethren), the law (The Just and the Unjust). In Guard of Honor he not only shows again his fine descriptive talents but boldly tangles with two of the toughest subjects of the day-the nature of war, and racial intolerance. Guard of Honor is a big, fat book-much bigger than Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal or Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement-bigger, and far better...