Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said that when President-emeritus Lowell surveyed his academic demesne at the last, having filled in the bigger ditches and rounded the boundaries, he was least satisfied with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. But so entrenched were the traditions and methods of gaining this degree at Harvard, and so long and forbidding the task of changing them, that he preferred to leave it to a younger man who should succeed him. This archaic and cumbersome bequest, the Graduate School, may be regarded as the greatest problem of the new presidency...
...Hofmann offered her a scholarship at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, but when he turned her over to an assistant Father Slenczynski packed her up and took her to Europe where he taught her himself, learning one piece after another just a jump ahead of her. Until she is bigger Father Slenczynski will allow her to play only a limited number of concerts, this season in Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...little pieces of canvas slightly bigger than a man's shirtfront last week raised the entire Metropolitan Museum of Art high in the list of the world's repositories. Bursting with pride Director Herbert Eustis Winlock placed on exhibition the most important purchase the museum has ever made out of its own funds, two panels joined together by hinges, bought after four years of stealthy negotiation from the Soviet Government: "The Crucifixion" and the "Last Judgement," generally attributed to Hubert van Eyck. Belittlers have insisted that the small panels (each...
...borrower pays about 17% for the money that he actually uses. But that is better than the 42% of personal finance companies and a far cry from the loan shark to whom the sky is no limit. Last week the genial, oracular founder of Morris Plan Banks released a bigger & better Morris bank plan...
...bonds of the issue announced in October, but public enthusiasm for the new bonds waned somewhat last week due to the Administration's experiments with a rubberized dollar. Banks and bond dealers who had bid heavily in the cash subscription of the new issue were surprised by getting bigger allotments than they expected. Sales of unwanted bonds in the market forced the price of the new issue, dubbed "converts." down almost a point below the subscription price. Base-Stealing. The Senate investigating committee last week had Albert Henry Wiggin, son of Mary Baker Eddy's rewrite...