Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army and seven of his Generals, all shot; the onetime Chief of the Soviet Munitions Trust, shot; even the Editor of the Soviet State's own newsorgan Izvestia, who was arrested. In Russia, where it is impossible to throw up one's job and flee, since the greater part of the Soviet frontier is sealed with barbed wire and guarded day and night, the number of suicides among Russians of consequence is said to have touched as high as 200 per week...
...Greater aristocrats even than the Habsburgs in the eyes of many Austrians are the Starhembergs. A few years ago Ernst Rüdiger Prince von Starhemberg, the dashing, amiable head of the House of Star-hemberg-whose ancestors helped save Austria from the Turks in 1693-was not only Vice-Chancellor of Austria but favored to become Regent. He had run out of money of his own to pay his immense private army, the Heimwehr, but was receiving more cash regularly from Premier Mussolini. Suddenly the Prince proceeded to make almost as much of a mess as did Edward VIII...
...would write great historical novels "must show us character in relation to events greater than individuals, and yet he must show us character first of all as itself alone." He predicted that when a truly distinguished novel about the class struggle is written, it will not be dubbed "proletariat," but will stand as a great novel in its own right...
...Copey and Christmas have become almost synonymous. Shortly before the vacation recess each December, except last year when he was ill, Copey has given his Yuletide readings to Freshmen at the Union. This has been going on for twenty-six years now, and Copey's drawing power is growing greater with each year. It is not because he is the former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory that Copey's annual rendition regularly attracts crowds of Yardlings; they can and do hear accomplished speakers almost daily! It is not because the selections he reads are exciting or dramatic; they...
...profess to be authorities on the subject that the only way to train men for government service is to apprentice them to those in public offices. This method is the only one which has been tried out, and its results do not preclude the possibility of the even greater success of a newer and perhaps more progressive training...