Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Left and Right were malodorous in Greece (armed struggle between the factions left 50 dead on election eve). But Britain, and by implication the U.S., were committed, in the nature of the bigger world issues, to support of the Right. Both Governments squirmed with discomfort, for both had failed to make clear to their people the necessity of their unpleasant choice...
First stage will be vastly improved airplanes stemming from conventional designs. If the scientists are right, they will fly faster than sound, climb to the lower edge of the stratosphere, be bigger and longer-ranged than anything now known. Their functions: patrolling, old-fashioned atomic bombing, fighting their enemy opposite numbers...
...Swedish astronomer, gazing through his telescope one quiet night last week, saw a luminous something-no bigger than a glowworm-appear on the horizon. Within ten seconds it had grown into a 90-ft.-long, torpedolike missile whose fiery tail spewed blue and green smoke. Said the astronomer: "I had visions of doomsday...
...cornerstones of Hearstian journalism is righteous editorial indignation which leads to crusades and, hopefully, to bigger circulation figures. Hearst editors are prepared at a moment's notice to turn the heat up under such standbys as vivisection and habit-forming drugs. Last week they were given a new target: salacious books...
...Heart. One of the most deadly of all human infections is bacterial endocarditis (bacterial inflammation of a heart membrane). Against it, penicillin at first failed. Now heart specialists have found an answer: bigger doses of penicillin than previously tried. In a bulletin of the American Heart Association, Dr. Thomas H. Hunter of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital announced that with massive penicillin doses (up to 20,000,000 units a day) it is possible to cure the subacute form of the disease "in almost every patient...