Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court's disrepute was the justices' continual and active politicking around Washington. Jimmy Byrnes had left the court to go back into the fray. Felix Frankfurter had made no bones about his coziness with the White House in the Roosevelt days. Jackson hoped for a bigger political plum. Black made speeches before the National Citizens Political Action Committee. Justice Murphy was the most indefatigable cocktail-partier in the capital (where cocktails are invariably spiced with political dope...
Crowds & Cops. Some weddings were bigger even than their sponsors had expected. Last week Pittsburgh's Mayor David L. Lawrence carelessly announced that "everybody" was invited to his youngest daughter's wedding. To his amazement almost everybody came; cops had to clear a lane through mobs of curious housewives to get Daughter Anna Mae and her husband out of the church...
...organ music almost drowned a faintly ominous message from Reno: June divorces were bigger, better and fancier than ever...
...experiment designed 1) to test reader reaction to W.N.U.'s 100-odd canned features (comics, news pictures, fiction, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell, patterns, editorials, etc.); 2) to show U.S. country editors how to put out better, more profitable papers. But expansive John H. Perry said he had even bigger plans: a nationwide system of state newspaper chains...
...necessity, however, the ivy shelters but cannot obscure a significant change. With a fixed plant, a faculty shortage, and a greatly expanded enrollment, the College has been inexorably forced to shade the quality of its offerings. Tutorial, in many departments, is a memory; classes are too big and growing bigger; section men are scarce and overloaded; crowding in the Houses has cramped their ability to function as leisurely intellectual incubators. However nourishing the menu may remain, its flavor has grown noticeably flat...