Word: mightier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Bend, the Notre Dame-Southern California game determined no championship. Yet 56,000 fans jampacked the Rockne stadium to find out whether undefeated Southern California was really a mighty team or just mightier than a lot of West Coast teams that were playing like chumps this year. They found out. Southern California 20, Notre Dame...
Last week Herr Goring's fliers set out to test one theory of air-minded modern militarists: that the plane is mightier than the battleship. If that theory can be proved true, the balance of power in Europe is far different from what it seems on paper. If the German Air Force is greater than the British Navy, then the French and British Armies...
...detective story.* Her heroine: Betty Dwight, good-looking, poker-faced, five-times women's singles champion, who faces Mexican Challenger Marie Azarin, at Wimbledon, only to have Senorita Azarin drop dead on the court. Significance: in Mrs. Moody's hand the racket is mightier than...
Nope. Mr. Klein's act would never do. The Hobby Lobby has some 5 million listeners. If even a hundred of them corked off, without Mr. Klein in the living room to wake them up, it could make a mightier stir than the Orson Welles-invoked invasion from Mars. Why, some of the audience might even sleep through the commercial ! No sir! Thanks awfully, though...
...four votes (43-to-39) in the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt won his bitter fight with Congress over control of the country's' money. But the end of that fight only cleared the field for a mightier one: over control of the country's conduct in case of war overseas. As 34 diehard-isolationists massed in Senator Johnson's lair under the Capitol rotunda to sign a manifesto, lines formed for the longest tussle of all between the 32nd President and the 76th Congress...