Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rainy mist sweeps gently o'er the village by the stream, When from the leafy forest glades the brigand daggers gleam . . . And yet there is no need to fear or step from out their way, For more than half the world consists of bigger rogues than they...
Heavy travelling expenses, he pointed out, shackled the lightweight gridders to local goal posts, and unfortunately, nearby schools like B. C. and Tufts could not support additional squads. Competition with prep school varsities was abandoned after a trial, according to Bingham, simply because "A lot of those boys are bigger and heavier than our 150-pounders...
...Dominion's overall rent bill will not go up 10%, after all. Landlords are dissatisfied because they must offer a two-year lease to gain the extra revenue. Believing that all controls will be off in less than two years, many landlords are gambling on no increase now, bigger returns later...
...Teachers' Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problems-education. By narrative, charts and acted episodes, the film dramatizes the fact that, with public school enrollments bigger than ever before, and constantly growing, the U.S. has fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained "emergency" amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid...
...When you are down on your knees and scrubbing, this world of voices seems to lie a great distance above your head. You feel like a little child again, as a child takes for granted that there are bigger people always above her. . . . My muscles are working while they chatter, while they pose, disarranging their lives, striving perpetually to get things straight, yet merely disarranging matters more; while I, I am the person who is constantly straightening things out, keeping life fit to live...