Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopes of bigger and better House dances and smokers, a more "refined and cultured atmosphere" and such events as House plays brought votes for all seven Houses...
...first step in its new all-year schedule. Under the guiding hand of Holmes, who has remained associated with the band since his own undergraduate days, and manager Walter J. Skinner '48, the musicians will make a spring tour of neighboring colleges and are looking forward to bigger and better seasons adding color, life, and originality to the College musical scene...
...Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma mines, which supplied coal to Lone Star. (There was no suitable coal in Texas.) If Big Steel, which wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant in Houston, got the mines, Lone Star was done for. Was Big Steel bigger than Texas...
...cities have changed even more. For the first time in Texas history, urban population had become bigger than the rural. Biggest change-and growth-is in Houston, smack in the middle of the chemical wave that has swamped the whole Gulf Coast. Before the war, greater Houston was already the crowded center of oilfields and refineries. War brought it 20% of the nation's synthetic-rubber plants and 145 major chemical plants. Postwar expansion completed the jam, with scores of new installations. Now, the skeletons of new skyscrapers fill the skyline...
...hardest hit; many Americans almost forgot what little bay scallops tasted like. Ducks, geese and brant were sufferers too (they eat eelgrass shoots). The disappearance of the eelgrass upset the entire balance of eastern shoreline life. The fungus became less virulent around 1940; patches of eelgrass appeared and grew bigger. This year the eelgrass is almost back to normal. Life among the seafood is almost normal...