Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Legion has given residents of Greater Boston just cause for indignation in the past few years, but in the ludicrous handling of the last rites for Louis Gaeta it has surpassed itself. Yesterday the Legion draped with an American flag the coffin of a confirmed racketeer, gambler, political grafter, and all-round public enemy...
...growing pains enjoyed by the House in the past three years. The effect of this growth can be noticed in such phases of P. B. U. work as the Social Service Committee, which this fall has sent an amazing number of student volunteers to the scattered settlement houses of Greater Boston, and also in the Personnel Adviser. Now the development and concentration of all phases has been accomplished by the drawing up of a constitution, through which the House will in future...
...results in America is the "mistaken belief that anything worthwhile must be hard, dreary, and in general against the grain. The more uninviting and erudite a course in college, the greater is the intellectual distinction for taking...
...Marlowe had been in London for six years. He had written three sensationally successful tragedies, including Tamburlaine, "the most important event in the history of English literature," and his most recent play. Edward the Second, while not as successful as his first, showed greater mastery of his art. Leaving London to escape the plague, he had been recalled by the authorities two weeks before. At ten in the morning of May 30. with two government agents and a London thief, the prominent young playwright visited Dame Eleanor Bull's tavern, took a private room, ate dinner, walked...
...football at Harvard. It was a victory as satisfying as it was deserved, and it was enjoyed by those who sat on the bench the entire afternoon, despite the fact that they had worked just as hard as those who played. For they realized that the coaches owed a greater debt to football at Harvard, than to any individuals personally...