Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fiorello LaGuardia: "[He was] just a humble little man who has lived the Sermon on the Mount-bigger than any man in his Party...
When smooth, silver-haired Richard Wilton Clarke went on vacation last month, he had one of the big jobs in U.S. journalism - managing editor of the New York Daily News. Last week, when he got back, he had a bigger one: executive editor, secretary of the board and a director of the giant News Syndicate Co. Adman Roy Holliss, head man since Captain Joseph M. Patterson's death last spring, had been killed in an auto crash; in the reshuffling of executives that followed, Clarke's stock had gone way up (to about $150,000 a year...
...that the quality of the British phonograph recording industry is well ahead of ours, and present developments, step by step, are widening their edge. This state of affairs results from a fundamental difference in the American and British approaches towards music. The hucksters have taken over American music and bigger sales and profits and poorer standards are the order of the day. With an infinitely smaller market the British industry remains essentially one which furthers music a san art, with the search for perfection the keynote of their policy...
When cold grains of matter are present, said Dr. Spitzer, the gas molecules collide with them. This reduces the molecules' velocity (the same thing as their temperature). Then they adhere to the grains, making them bigger. Eventually the grains get big enough to attract one another by gravitation. The little clot grows to a bigger clot. In a billion years or so, a star is born...
Unless war can be abolished, the U.S. officially informed the U.N. last week, the only recourse of peace-loving nations against aggressors using atomic bombs will be to develop bigger & better atomic bombs. The announcement was made in Scientific Information, Volume I of Bernard M. Baruch's report to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission...