Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attlee approach was, in the words of London's Economist, "the planners' last chance." It might end much of Labor's vague mismanagement. But by Attlee's own estimate, it could only carry Britain through the winter to face another, even bigger crisis in 1948. At that time, many observers believed, Britain would have to tap her last gold reserves and thus stand on the brink of national ruin...
After seven years of intermittent carving, stroking, currying and patting, 70-year-old Herbert Haseltine had completed at last his "masterpiece"-a bigger-than-life-size plaster cast of famed race horse...
When circulation to the cortex is impeded, the blood bypasses the cortex and flows through bigger blood vessels in the kidney's medulla or interior (see cut). The cortex, starved for blood and oxygen, deteriorates. Results: 1) the production of urine slows or stops altogether; 2) the anemic cortex apparently secretes a substance (perhaps a hormone) that raises blood pressure throughout the body...
...Italy's being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...
...company after company released its second-quarter reports last week, the estimates seemed reasonable. Increases of 100% to 300% above the strike-harassed 1946 period were not uncommon. Of 342 companies reporting at week's end, 237 showed bigger earnings, only 67 showed decreases. Oil-profiting from an unprecedented demand sufficient to outrun supply for two years-set the pace. Typical six months' earnings: Sun Oil Co., $11,360,170-up from $4,360,212; Phillips Petroleum Co., $15,459,699 v. $8,002,179; and Shell Union Oil Corp...