Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What aroused Senators last week was the recurrent tendency of the Court to favor higher corporate valuations, bigger profits, and increased rates. Speaker after speaker grouped the eight associate justices into Conservatives who supported this tendency-Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, Butler, Sanford-and Liberals who strongly dissented from it-Holmes, Brandeis, Stone. The Court, it was claimed, was clearly divided between five or "property rights" and three for "human rights." Warning was heard that Chief Justice Hughes would, by virtue of his training, his professional associations, his cast of mind, take his place on the side of "property rights...
...Well he wrote home such glowing accounts of his success on the stage that he was reluctant to ask for help when the play was taken off. After playing one-night stands in a variety of tank towns he settled down to stock in bigger cities. He was featured in a Manhattan success, Within the Law. Six feet tall and well built, he belongs to most of the clubs an actor of his derivation is eligible for. He has been in The Bright Shawl, Too Many Kisses, Four Feathers, Pointed Heels, The Canary Murder Case, The Greene Murder Case...
General opinion on the Lake Forest campus: This most recent spatter of mud is an effort to attack the smiles of Dakota universities, jealous of the place of the East, to get them into a position to favor his application for a job. Puddling would be bigger there... Very truly yours, Timothy Perry...
...staking everything on Mr. Strawn. He is bigger now than the whole Sanitary District, the Mayor, the City Council, or the County Board. With $20,000,000 in his hands ready to dole out, with restrictions, to money-hungry governments, he has Chicago eating out of his hands...
...beat Philippe Cattiau, former world's greatest amateur, 14 touches to 5 with the foils. Most critics believe he would have had an easy time with famed fencers of the past: Kirchhoefer, Greco, Pini, Rue. They rate him with the great Marignac, notable for his ferocity. Marignac was bigger than Nadi who, though stocky (approx. 160 Ibs.) is not tall (5 ft. 10½ in.) for a fencer. One of his most famous strokes is the "advance thrust"-a lunge made on the offensive which few fencers dare attempt. He is good with all weapons, but best with...