Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer was an emphatic Yes. Like many a publisher with a conscience, he had an uneasy feeling that the press was falling down on its job. The daily montages of headlines, in his Providence Journal and Bulletin and elsewhere, were nagging proof that the times demanded better papers, bigger and broader newsmen-on penalty of chaos...
...tried an experiment. To expose his key staffers (and indirectly his readers) to new ideas, he haled visiting bigwigs into his editorial conferences. The brain-picking bees brought no spectacular changes in his papers, but they goaded his staff into taking thought. A year ago, he got a bigger idea...
...Ohio landscape is dotted with colleges, big & small (only bigger New York and Pennsylvania have more). Of Ohio's 44, little Kenyon, in tiny Gambier, is one of the oldest, best-known, and best-looking. Kenyon (chartered in 1824) came into the world when Philander Chase, the horse-riding Episcopal Bishop of Ohio, stood on top of an oak-wooded hill in 1825 and announced to the wilderness: "This will...
Wishful Laborites expected that the Tory giants would lose ground in such a free market. They underestimated Britons' ravenous appetite for more news. In the first days of the new deal, all the big papers got bigger, no matter what their politics. Biggest ground-gainer: the Mirror, which serves its Socialism with sex on the side. Overnight it added 600,000 customers, passed 3,000,000 circulation. But the Tory Express, which has the biggest daily circulation in the world, picked up another third of a million, seemed likely to hold a safe lead with its dizzy...
...always been deeply interested in the farm problem (he has championed farmers by praising their coops and, more recently, by fighting for decontrol of farm products), got only a taste of making farm implements with his New Idea, Inc. Now he wants a bigger bite. One guess is that Emanuel will soon move deeper into the farm-implement field, may buy up another company. After that, even Emanuel is not quite sure where he is going...