Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internal chaos before the nation settles down to work. The Swiss are practiced observers of the world scene and, perhaps through wishful thinking, are optimistic over the ultimate future of Britain and France. They might be likened to a small marathon runner poised at the starting line while the bigger fellows argue and go through setting-up exercises. Sweden, of course, is having 'Russia trouble,' and wishing it were just a bad dream...
...Wladyslaw Gomulka. Poland's Communist Vice Premier arrived in Katowice, capital of Upper Silesia, to make a speech. He ordered General Alexander Zawadzki, governor of the conquered area, to round up 50,000 people for the meeting. As the day wore on, Gomulka's demands got bigger. He demanded 100,000 people to listen to him, then 150,000, then 200,000. The population of Katowice is only 150,000. But a crowd of 200,000 turned out for the speech...
Working with some unusual accessories (including canary birds, guppies and nervous women), Inventor S. Young White is digging into a complex study called ultrasonics.* Last week, in Audio Engineering, Inventor White described one of his gadgets: a sound-maker no bigger than a milk bottle. The White siren can generate: 1) "silent" sounds powerful enough to set paper afire; 2) audible sounds so loud that they knock strong men (including Mr. White) silly for five minutes...
Blakelock, self-taught, had spent most of his life fanatically painting bigger, better landscapes, and trying to support his family in the slum-infested fringes of Manhattan by peddling the pictures to framers, Third Avenue junk dealers, and auction houses for a few dollars apiece. Intermittently, his work was exhibited at the National Academy; but conventional critics of the 1870s and '80s did not like the misty, moody landscapes-empty of human life-which Blakelock did best. Storytelling in painting was the fashion...
...people of Paris," wrote François Rabelais in the 16th Century, "are so foolish by nature that a juggler, a pardon-peddler, a mule with bells . . . will gather a bigger crowd than a good evangelic preacher ever could." Four centuries later, between 1920 and 1935, Parisian jugglers and pardon-peddlers were gathering one of the biggest, strangest crowds in French history-a throng of U.S. expatriates, fleeing the New World of Harding, Coolidge, and their own disconsolate selves. Says Samuel Putnam, who went to Paris in 1926 to translate the works of Rabelais, and stayed seven years, writing sometimes...