Word: grander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mounting criticism at home (see p. 27). The Prime Minister feels more secure in the affections of his people; he knows they believe him irreplaceable. Yet he, too, is conscious of shortcomings. He knows he has been too quick-tempered of late, too impatient of domestic problems before the grander strategy...
Buenos Aires' opera house, the Teatro Colon, is one of the two or three best in the world. Bigger and grander than Manhattan's aged and drab Metropolitan, it has a much longer season: from May through October. This year the Colon's director, Floro Meliton Ugarte, signed Arturo Toscanini (see above} for six concerts with the opera orchestra. Meantime...
...drawings, which are artistic works of science. His interest in ecology-the study of the relation, always complex, between each animal and its environment-makes his book not merely a description of loathly and lovely beastlings from Jamaica and Yucatan but a picture of a darker and grander organism of which they are parts...
...animals in order to learn the control of disease in our own world. His book shows that patient naturalists can still find under leaves and stones a tropical American world as strange and dark as that which in the 19th Century pioneers like Bates and Belt found on a grander scale...
Effect. As statisticians began making "horseback appraisals" of who would pay what, the new bill's grander follies began to take shape. Most startling example was the contrasting cases of U. S. Steel, a leading defense beneficiary, and Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., cigaretmakers, who are likely to get little benefit from a defense boom. Having had three very poor years in 1936, 1938 and 1939, Big Steel will undoubtedly figure its excess profits by return on its capital. By this method, it can earn up to some $112,000,000 over and above its normal tax before paying...