Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger mistake of the Changsha officials was their failure to inform themselves that the Japanese were still 58 miles away from the city. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek meted out punishment for both errors. He reputedly ordered Changsha's garrison commander, chief of police and commander of the provincial troops executed for their "premature zeal...
...surface facts seem impishly simple: backed at first by an elderly Halifax financier, he engineered mergers of banks, utilities, steel and cement companies, collecting ever bigger commissions. His greatest merger, which formed the $37,500,000 Canada Cement Co. Ltd., was almost a Dominion scandal (which Beaverbrook blames on a disappointed rival). But he was already tired of mere moneymaking...
...Bigger news to U. S. readers was the appearance of Major George Fielding Eliot's The Ramparts We Watch, which outlines an intelligent policy of national defense, warns of the menace of war and yet manages to be reassuring. Major Eliot confidently, convincingly affirms that the U. S. can build an impregnable military force without endangering her democratic traditions, without becoming a warlike power...
...centuries by the Lords of Montespan one of whose ladies achieved fame as the mistress of Louis XIV. Near the ancient castle was a cavern leading into the mountain which the natives assured him was impenetrable after a short distance. Casteret undressed, slipped through a crack not much bigger than his body, waded into a grotto through which an underground stream flowed...
...trade papers announced that New Directions of Norfolk, Conn, would soon publish Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. This was sensational news, since publishing Henry Miller is a task that might well make any publisher blanch. Brought out in Paris four years ago, Tropic of Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever remember to have read...