Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since regular passenger flights began in 1919, more than 2,300 airports have dotted the U. S., of which less than 10% are scheduled airline stops. Most are already out of date, many are dangerous to big, heavily loaded luxury liners. Among the 16 odd airports serving Greater New York, none can qualify with the Air Commerce Bureau's classification as super terminals (4,000 ft. runways in four directions plus two miles of clear approaches). But the metropolis has many places where a pilot can sit down...
...Forest Hills matches got under way, von Cramm put out young Alfred Jarvis and Donald McNeill, but had to work his hardest to beat Hal Surface of Kansas City, who twice was within a point of making it a five-set battle. With much greater dispatch, Budge put out William Winslow, Joseph Abrams...
...Major Stevens' plates clearly show a perfectly even corona surrounding the sun, at a depth considerably greater than the diameter of the body. His photographs include eleven pictures with a 24-inch camera, four pictures with an 8 1/4-inch camera, and 150 feet of motion picture film made with a 6-inch lens...
...International Settlement. Last week they were shelled to pieces by the guns of art-loving Admiral Yonai. Nearly half of Mayor Yui's great city was in flames and many thousands of his citizens were dead, but O. K. Yui has a chance of becoming a far greater hero than Mayor Wu ever...
...Hollywood have, by and large, never dressed for each other or for men, but for the camera, which makes more extravagant demands than either. Result is that many a smart cinemagoer is as likely as not to snigger at the West Coast's idea of haute couture. The greater credit, therefore, to producer Walter Wanger that in building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan's 7th Avenue...