Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more democracy. . . . I seek no change in the form of American Government. . . . It is of interest to read Macaulay's letter with care-for I find in it no reference to the improving of the living conditions of the poor, to the encouragement of better homes or greater wages, or steadier work...
...navy's Shanghai move was a blunder, or whether the Japanese demands were a bluff which the Chinese called-perhaps more out of excitement than shrewdness-the result was a war big enough to endanger Japan's precarious economic structure. For the longer the war lasts, the greater, almost inevitably, will be Chinese defeats, but the greater also the danger of economic collapse in Japan...
Mayor Yui. The potent figure of Chiang Kai-shek had last week not yet appeared directly on the Shanghai front Chinese commander at Shanghai was a little known war lord named Chang Chi-chung. More important politically was the mayor of greater (Chinese) Shanghai, Yu Hung-chun who prefers to Americanize his name to Mr. O. K. Yui. Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct...
...first two flights had been made in slow, single-motored jobs. Purpose this time was to demonstrate the route's commercial importance and Levanevsky was given a huge, new, four-motored monoplane with crew of five and cargo of caviar, furs and mail. Having greater speed but less range than the single-motored pioneers of the route, this red and blue giant was scheduled to stop for fuel at Fairbanks, Alaska. By week's end it had not reached this far-northern outpost. Approaching the Pole in sub-zero temperature, it had battled tremendous winds...
...born into a socially prominent New York family which discouraged her early attempts at writing, although when she was 15 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had some of her poems published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, Boston banker, whom she later divorced. Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899. In 1906, like her friend and idol, Henry James, she went abroad to live. Three years later she wrote her famed New England tragedy, Ethan Frome. In 1920 she won the Pulitzer Prize with The Age of Innocence...