Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Mention Communism." The Peace Front must become a bigger & better Communist machine. This must be achieved mainly through good works (with some Tammany touches). Explained Delegate Remo Scapini of Pisa...
After unifying mathematics and logic, Whitehead moved out into bigger playgrounds. "Philosophy," he remarked, "asks the simple question, 'What is it all about?' " Modern science had introduced new, disturbing concepts like relativity and the quantum theory that never bothered 19th Century thinkers. One of the first and ablest philosophers of modern science, Whitehead in Science and the Modern World (1925) sought to catch up with these experimental and theoretical advances, and organize them. Whitehead deplored the current tendency to overemphasize observation and experiment ("Can we elucidate the turmoil of Europe by weighing its dictators, its prime ministers...
Labor's Cut. Union labor pointed at the fat corporate profits and demanded a bigger cut too. (Average weekly wages in all manufacturing industries rose 9.87% to $51.75.) There was also a significant shift in the size of the cut that the different segments of labor got. John L. Lewis' mine workers, once $24-a-week workers, were the aristocrats of labor; their wages averaged more than $70 a week. The auto workers, once about the best paid, were passed in the wage parade by a handful of others...
...idea was not original with Dr. Brown. Others have conjectured that a good-sized planet may once have revolved in the orbit (between Mars and Jupiter) now cluttered with little asteroids. When the planet broke up (for an unknown reason), the bigger chunks became asteroids; some of the smaller remains stampeded around the solar system as maverick meteors...
...boom? Bigger than ever, said the Federal Reserve Board last week. Following the summer slump, FRB's production index (1935-39 average: 100) had climbed to a postwar peak of 192 in November...