Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeated affirmation ..." declared Portugal, ''of the principles advocated by the Secretary of State, the intellectual or sentimental adhesion of many to the said principles, their inclusion in many treaties between nations or in a document of greater scope aiming at defining the rules of life common to all States, will have, we believe, the effect of a certain moral pressure, but will produce rather limited practical action. We would be mistaken if we were to expect important results therefrom...
Tucked away in the Phillips Brooks House annual report for 1936-37 is the record of the Dental School Committee which claims that forty-six months belonging to youthful victims in Greater Boston were "completely restored and eligible for dental certificates...
...real interest has been stimulated. In the not so distant past the security of their own future insulated their minds to any relative application of the distress encountered to their own lives and position in society. Direct contact with the results of unemployment, insecurity, and poverty has brought today greater realizations of their importance and position to the average undergraduate...
...ribbons and rich (Eastman-endowed), up-&-coming University of Rochester-the National Puzzlers' League last week met in convention and concocted an anagram: "I, LAITY, CAN CHEER ATOMIC SCHEME." These letters, rearranged, also spell "Oh, Science! May it teach miracle." This puzzling tribute was aimed at a far greater contemporary assemblage of puzzle solvers, the 94th convention of the American Chemical Society, the comings & goings of whose 3,461 delegates made the lobby of Rochester's Hotel Seneca resemble a Manhattan subway at rush hour...
Heavyweight Detectives. Deuterium occurs in nature to the extent of one atom among 4,500 atoms of ordinary hydrogen. With modern apparatus if deuterium is present in quantities much greater than this proportion it can be detected. Thus if a man weighing 160 lb. drinks 20 drops of heavy water, the excess of deuterium will show in his urine. Biologists have been quick to see that, with two kinds of hydrogen atoms as distinct as red and green, a neat method was available for tracing the course of hydrogen-bearing compounds in body processes. Scientists in Germany have already found...