Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although played on even terms for the greater part of the game, the Freshman Hockey team was able to defeat a scrappy Belmont Hill School sextet 5-1 yesterday afternoon at the Garden on the strength of three goals in the first seven minutes of play...
...Princeton last Saturday, the Terriers are out to draw their second taste of Big Three blood and promise to provide a busy evening for the Crimson. On the other hand the Stubbsmen are smarting from their defeat by the Olympics Tuesday night and will be out to redeem themselves. Greater reserve strength would seem to make Harvard the favorite in tonight's encounter...
...China cannot absorb Japan, what are the chances of Japan's dominating China permanently? Here the second new element enters the situation. China absorbed her earlier conquerors chiefly by reason of her own greater cultural vitality. In part it has been this same vitality of the old Confucian way of life which has delayed China's modernization. In the last decade the tempo of modernization has markedly increased, but instead of evaporating, the old culture seems to be forming the basis for a rapidly growing modern nationalism,--as one might expect. Modern China is becoming more and more conscious...
There is no air supply coming down through a hose, the diver carries tanks of oxygen and helium on his back, inside the suit, adjusts his own atmosphere. Thus there is no airline to foul or puncture, and the diver can even disconnect his hoist line for greater freedom, keeping track of a "distance line" on the bottom so that he can find his way back to the surface connecting lines. If he happens to lose it, he can, according to Diver Nohl, rise of his own accord by valving gas into the suit...
Williams, playing a defensive game throughout, was unable to cope with a strong Crimson attack. The ability of the winners to get the ball off the backboard enabled them to control the ball for the greater part of the encounter...