Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princeton has a greater undergraduate enrollment this year than it has ever had before, Registrar Wilbur F. Kerr reported yesterday. The number had reached 2365, with a dozen or more still expected. Last year the total...
Down at Brown nestled--in the foot-hills of Providence the famine in foot-ball victories has been of equal intensity and greater duration than it has up among us city folks in Cambridge. And on long winter nights the alumnie wolves can be heard starting their long quavering howls as they thirst for the blood of one Mr. Tuss McLaughry, coach for some time now at the Providence institution...
...Cortez' or Columbus. . . . If all the speeches she has made in the past twelve months were laid end to end they would constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon. Dorothy Thompson is greater than Eliza because not only does she cross the ice but breaks it as she goes. Moreover, she is her own bloodhound...
...Rhine evaluates only favorable scores, ignoring others; that he pays no attention to the internal inconsistency of his results; that the presence of sensory cues or some other extraneous factor is indicated by higher scores when conditions are such that the chance of such factors being present is greater. Concluded Dr. Kellogg: ''Concerning the theories, no comment need be made at present. We would suggest that they be held in reserve until such time as it may be known whether there is anything to explain. For, while Professor Rhine's experiments have yielded some interesting results...
...members from the First Counselor in the potent, three-man First Presidency-plump J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., able lawyer, able onetime colleague and successor of Dwight Whitney Morrow as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Counselor Clark warned Mormons of the next depression, "more serious, affecting intimately far greater numbers of people than the one we are now finishing. To prepare for this coming disaster we must avoid debt as we would avoid a plague. Let us live within our incomes and save a little money. Do not speculate...