Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed to find one that suited him. Disappointed, he served a brief stint on the family newspaper, then went to Manhattan to try his hand at advertising. Another youngster named William Benton, a year older but four years richer in experience, hired him to write trade-paper ads for the old Batten agency at $25 a week...
...voices. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "Any chorus of 200 can make a majestic noise; and Mr. Ifor's [sic] chorus makes the most agreeable, the most brilliant and bright-sounding choral fortissimo I have ever heard. . . . But how much richer and grander it would be if Mr. Jones would cut his chorus down about 80 per cent and his orchestra by half...
...Attempting to describe its taste, the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics said it would have "a more wheaty flavor"; it would also be richer in proteins...
When the addition is completed by fall, the White House will be richer by 15,000 ft. of office space (for the President's assistants and clerks) and a 375-seat auditorium...
Adoption is the order of the day. Ruined towns are being adopted by those less damaged, villages by cities, cities by provinces, small countries by larger and richer ones. And the latest idea is the adoption of soldiers graves by people in the areas where they exist...