Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submarine can sit on the bottom, motors off, provided the depth is no greater than its usual cruising depth. In really deep water, the submarine's hull could not stand the pressure...
...have often wondered why the Germans did not make greater efforts to reduce our strength in capital ships by destroyer or submarine attacks on our bases in those early days. They possessed, in comparison with the uses for which they were required, almost a superfluity of destroyers . . . and they could not have put them to a better use than in an attack on Scapa Flow during the early months of the 1914-15 winter.-The late Admiral Earl Jellicoe...
...Corridor were to be pushed eastward into whatever rump Poland the Führer decided to create. Later, some 80,000 Germans living in Russian Poland were expected to be exchanged for the Ukrainians and White Russians still left in German Poland. There were still further hints of greater mass migrations to come, of repatriating other widely scattered German populations in Europe: 800,000 in Rumania, 600,000 in Hungary, 600,000 in Yugoslavia, 1,100,000 in Russia...
...Greater Boston's untold thousands of debating fans were foiled yesterday when they sat down to listen to a Harvard M. I. T. debate broadcast over WAAB and got transcribed music instead...
Open house yesterday was attended by a large number of students and today an even greater number is expected to come. Students will be able to take advantage of this free entertainment during the regular business hours from 9 o'clock in the morning to closing time at 9 o'clock tonight. The manager of the Shop is anxious to have as many men as possible drop in during...