Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horoes on Soldiers Field on Saturday were not dressed in football togs. Many of them wore silk stockings, ridiculous footwear, and feathered hats and got thoroughly drenched watching a game they probably didn't understand. No greater love bath woman than this. As a visiting California journalist remarked: "These New England women certainly can take it--the suckers...
...gold trinkets at the behest of their Premier's able wife, Radiorating Mme Chiang Kaishek. To the many earmarks, minute or mighty, of this Great War last week Shanghai actuaries added finally a careful estimate that property damage there already exceeds $750,000,000. This is three times greater than the total of losses at Shanghai caused by Japan's attack there...
Leaving his professional capacity aside, McCray is tomorrow a man without a country, and this is justly so. As between two colleges there can be no greater devotion when both meet in the same fine spirit
...polish and pressing, even though Harvard is lucky that the Puritan tradition forbids bearskin shakos and braid. Failure to appreciate these costs is principally to blame for the lack of support from the students and not a lack of pride by the college in its band, a pride now greater for the organization's spirit and resourcefulness...
During the greater part of the story she is built up as one who loves nobody, and as such as one to whom the more loss of a husband should mean nothing. She is too beautiful not to acquire another just as she would acquire another vase for the broken one. Despite the buildup, however, the end shows her desolate. That is a flaw...