Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they knocked off work, got happily into velvet jackets or laced bodices and flowing skirts, tapped 300 kegs and 2,500 cases of beer and had a celebration even bigger than their annual Wilhelm Tell festival. The occasion: the town's 100th anniversary fete...
...disease, the nation's farms had produced bumper crops with machine-like regularity. Now, in defiance of the odds, the land was heavy with crops once more. They were so prodigally good that the U.S. would be able to go on feeding half a world and still provide bigger meals for the dining-room tables of its own wellfed people...
...Rhodes Scholar, he thinks Oxford University has the right idea in insisting on small colleges. Says he: "Learning is a kind of contagion. The group must be compact enough for the contagion to occur. I don't want this one [St. John's] to get any bigger. We've always assumed we would start another college when it got too big." St. John's, which graduated only seven students during one wartime year, expects to enroll 225 students this September-an all-time high. Barr has agreed to stick around until a St. John...
Volume Down, Profits Up. A third group of corporations was able to report higher profits despite a smaller volume of business and increased costs. Reason: they could keep a bigger percentage of their smaller profits because of the repeal of the excess profits...
Afghanistan is bigger than France, but it has only one movie theater. The capital, ancient Kabul, has only one café. And the café is allowed to open one week in the year. Last week was it-and Kabul's mud walls fairly shook with the greatest celebration yet of Jash'n Istiklal...