Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York is the only fit and adequate home for TIME and I have already noted an improvement in your issued of August 1, August 8 and August 15. They have more savor already and they seem to me to show that you are now successfully gleaning a much larger field of news information than you could possibly have drawn upon in small-town Cleveland. J. C. SINGER...
...complexion must come. Last week a photographer waylaid one of the forthcoming Ford models as it whizzed along on a country road test in southeastern Michigan. The blurred pictures revealed a radiator on the general style of the Lincoln; a spring-suspension giving a lower front effect; a hood larger and more streamlined to the body than ever before on a stock Ford. Evidently, too, all four of the wire wheels were braked. But from the rear-yes? no? . . . No, there was no visible difference; a new Ford would be scarcely distinguishable from an old until you passed...
...Discussing the Hoover plan (which was chiefly the expenditure of some $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 in the next ten years in strengthening the levee system and supplementing it with spillways) Mr. Thompson said that Mr. Hoover was merely repeating previous flood-control methods on a somewhat larger scale and added that the natural desire to arrive as soon as possible at some plan of flood prevention was likely to result in the adoption of "half baked measures...
...sign of national health that people are preferring this year larger designs and more pronounced colors. Yellows are coming to the front, tending to make oranges of reds. The stifling effect of great buildings and small apartment rooms is being offset by the use of scenic papers...
...steady plugging and with the co-operation of the Shah (whose revenue has been larger under Dr. Millspaugh than ever before) sufficient progress has been made so that the present budget shows a surplus. Time and again the Majlis (Parliament) has been ready to oust the U. S. Administrator-General of Finance; but many flukes have saved him. For example his dismissal was thought certain in 1924, just before the murder (TIME, July 28, 1924) of the U. S. Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie. That incident so fired U. S. wrath that the Persian Government dared not further inflame...