Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tanguay, Rooney & Bent. His act began on a dark stage with a spotlight on a placard, reading: "Mr. Allen Is Quite Deaf. If You Care to Applaud, Please Do So Loudly." His suit, he confided to the audience, had been made in Jersey City-"I'm a bigger man there than I am here...
...When Los Alamos grew bigger, it called in an outside educator as superintendent of schools. He figured that the brilliant scientists of Los Alamos must have brilliant offspring-probably an average I.Q. of 150. His school consequently emphasized college preparation for all, leaned hard on "oldfashioned" studies that discipline the mind...
...almost as observing about himself: "I know that I could write volume after volume as well as others of the mob of gentlemen who write with ease; but ... I have not the strong inward call, nor cruel-sweet pangs of parturition, that prove the birth of anything bigger than a mouse...
Harry Truman-or any American-looks small against that measure. The American people look bigger than Burnham thinks they...
...partly due to the Standard dictum: first get efficient and then get big. And it is partly due to the trust-busting days of 1911, when John D. Rockefeller's Jersey Standard octopus had its tentacles cut up into 34 pieces. Though most of the pieces have grown bigger than the old trust, none has garnered a big enough share of the U.S. oil business to raise the scare of monopoly. And now that the Rockefellers have sold out the bulk of their holdings, no individual stock interest is greater than 4%. But Jersey Standard, allergic to the word...