Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish retailers 30,000 strong closed their delicatessen, kosher butcher shops and pharmacies in Jewish sections of Metropolitan New York for 60 minutes last week. Some of them hung out signs: PEOPLE OF AMERICA, STOP HITLER NOW, AND SAVE CIVILIZATION! Bigger retail establishments like R. H. Macy & Co. made formal denials of rumors that they would fire their Aryan employes, replace them with refugee Jews...
Sunset's folksy Publisher Lawrence William ("Larry") Lane is now guaranteeing 225,000 a month for 1939, claims a bigger circulation than any other Pacific Coast magazine ever achieved...
Charley Lutz is ready for a bigger and better year than ever from his forward spot, and his running mate, Chet Legg, carries plenty of scoring punch. Hill Humes is well ahead in the scrap for the pivot post and Lupe Lupien is a fixture as one of the guards. The veteran Fred Hockel has held down the other guard position ever since the first practice session, and he has done a fine job filling the shoes of last year's Captain Vern Struck...
This is no plea for bigger-time football. But there can be a balance between the football of Pittsburgh and Notre Dame and the football of the dime admission, which Mr. Hutchins advocates. It is just this happy medium at which Harvard is attempting to arrive through having on the one hand a decent amateur football team and on the other an endowment plan. This endowment plan will in the future mean that Harvard's athletic program will not depend solely on up and down football gate receipts. The plan is an infant now, but an infant with giant possibilities...
Meanwhile Stanford piled up three times their opponents yardage and, by the last period, they had broken down the Dartmouth forward wall and were gaining at will. Easterners had hoped to crack the mythical "bigger and betterness" complex of western gridmen, and now they have got some explaining...