Word: biggers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilbur noted a brawl along a highway near Washington, D. C. He leaped from his car, sprinted to the scene of action, separated three Negro caddies of the Congressional Club. But his arrival was too late to prevent the fracturing of one little Negro's skull by a bigger Negro with a stick. Secretary Wilbur rushed the injured lad to the Congressional Club for medical attention...
Last week however, upon his return to Manhattan, he said much: "Every analysis of good securities will bear me out that the current trend of stock market prices is justified, and I predict within two or three months we shall witness a bigger bull market than ever before...
...read into the Corporation's decision more significance than that due the simple solution of an administrative problem. In the eternal choice between brawn and brain as the dominant force in American universities. Harvard has gone on record that she will not be stampeded into the current craze for bigger and better stadia. In assuming the position she has done more than this; she has set a definite limit to the advance of one of two forces. This step may or may not have far-reaching results, but at least it has put the University in a firm and individual...
...Another "bigger and better" Red Book makes its appearance tonight, on time to the minute. Producing the volume exactly on schedule is no easy feat, in view of the short time allowed the editors, but promptness is perhaps the least cause for their pride. For the 1931 Red Book is superficially far different from its predecessors, and is on the whole among the most artistic creations printed in the 19 years since Red Books first began...
...varying loads; variable camber in the wings, so that they could flatten out like a gull's when flying level; a varying angle of incidence to its wings, so that they could turn sideways into the wind on landing, and let him drop onto a landing field "no bigger than a handkerchief...