Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Big Last Period...
...Curley so popular? The big reason is his colorful individuality. When he first ran for mayor, he bolted every other ward boss in the city--a trick commonly thought of at the time as political suicide. As soon as he was mayor, he jarred the banks by his out-of-town borrowing. He has made and broken political friendships with nearly everyone in Boston politics since 1900: Ely, Fitzgerald, Daniel B. Coakley, ex-governor Robert F. Bradford, Tobin and David I. Walsh. In no term as mayor has he built up a strong personal machine such as those operated...
Coach Bill Osmanski is proceeding, after a fashion, through his second season at Worcester with a typical Holy Cross team--as far as the line goes. It is big, heavy, and slow, and opponents have been making merry with it all fall...
...cars in every garage and a swimming pool in every back yard--that's the prediction of Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, who says it may happen in 30 years. The economist's forecasts are printed in next month's Atlantic, in the feature story "How Big...
When Moritz left Harvard in August for a similar post at Cleveland's Western Reserve University, Massachusetts medical examiners gave him a big sender be installing a bronno plaque in the Department's library. The plaque commemorates "ten years of service which have given legal medicine a new integrity and stature in the Commonwealth...