Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announcing his departure at a Washington press conference, he unrolled an itinerary that stretched from London to Ankara, including Russia in time for the Moscow conference. But what made bigger news was unconventional Candidate Stassen's choice of a traveling companion: Philadelphia's onetime G.O.P. City Committee Chairman Jay Cooke, banker, onetime senatorial aspirant, and a leading light among Pennsylvania's Old Guard...
...William" Belt; his paternal grandfather, John Benjamin Belt of Beltsville, Md., had settled in Cuba after serving as Jeff Davis' purchasing agent there during the Civil War. After the 1933 revolution, young Belt became Havana's mayor at 29. In Washington he has worked diligently for bigger sugar quotas and other things good for Cuba. At the U.N. Assembly last fall he attacked the Soviet stand on the veto...
...this classic process of sexual selection, the male deer's glands grew bigger and muskier. The musk deer's luring game turned into a deadly risk for him when human beings caught on to the musk smell. As the deer's fame grew, rajahs and ranees, kings and their concubines, seducers and seductresses learned to use musk as a perfume. The Prophet Mohamed wrote in the Koran: "The Seal of Musk. For this let those pant who pant for bliss." The Empress Josephine, to rouse Napoleon's baser nature, used so much musk that the walls...
...Woodhead nor Gross would dare to admit publicly: that they and all other big aircraft manufacturers are facing one of the industry's worst financial storms. One big cause is the shuffle of military budgets, which will cut deeply into the planemakers' surest and richest market. A bigger one is that the planemakers are unalterably entangled with plane operators, whose troubles are headline topics...
Paganini Recital (Ruggiero Ricci, violin, with Louis Persinger, piano; Vox, 6 sides). A talented 26-year-old, who is soloist with the American Broadcasting Co. String Orchestra, uses these six show pieces of Paganini's to show that he is more nimble-fingered than some of the bigger names. Performance: excellent...