Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Circuit Court Judge John Cornelius Stennis, 46. Colmer and Stennis were both waging well-organized, serious campaigns. Significantly, neither was making an issue of white supremacy; they went on record as favoring "the Southern way of life," and let it go at that. Running neck & neck, both were pulling bigger crowds than Rankin...
...money to pay the fine, then you must pay in animals. In villages near Mildensee some peasants last year were jailed for up to six months for not meeting their grain delivery quotas in full. But we in Mildensee were able to meet our quotas. So they gave us bigger quotas this year. Now we have had drought, and I do not know how we can live...
Like the eight distinguished editors before him, New Jersey-born, Harvard-educated Ted Weeks is careful to nurture the Atlantic's New England roots, but just as careful not to trip on them. He does not forget that the Atlantic has a bigger circulation in California than in Massachusetts. In the Atlantic's ivy-covered Back Bay brownstone home on Arlington Street, opposite the Public Garden, Weeks labors at a furious pace. He does much of his work in a Windsor chair with his lap full of manuscripts, shortens interviews by seating visitors in an uncomfortable straight-backed...
...Philadelphia and Chicago last week, some small mills reported that they had only two weeks' scrap supply on hand. Some of the bigger companies were only a little better off. Whether or not steelmen would eventually be forced to pay higher prices, the shortage of scrap was so acute that a drop in steel production seemed inevitable...
...every incorporated town is required to offer its citizens "an opportunity" for elementary education, or bear the cost of sending the local kids elsewhere. Parents of Mount Washington's three elementary pupils boycott the local school because the one across the state line in Hillsdale, N.Y. is bigger & better...