Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leet said that he first learned of the earthquake when a Boston paper called him up at breakfast and informed him that there had been a series of tremors which had shaken up most of greater Boston. Leet was besieged by calls from New England residents and from newspapers, but he admitted that the most he could do was to "case a few troubled breasts," since his own station was not functioning...
...This would ensure that every department had enough "middle men" to efficiently staff its courses. It would also mean, of course, that some of the associate professors could never be advanced, but this presents no formidable problem if it is realized that associate professors here have larger salaries and greater academic prestige than full professors in most other colleges...
...only by surveying fully a background which includes the formal democracy of President Eliot and the benevolent dictatorship of President Lowell. Now the Faculty, stung by the Administration's hasty and somewhat arbitrary action in the acceptance of the Committee of Eight's report, is once more demanding a greater voice in management. Although the final result may come only in the long run, here too the Administration must show a willingness to make concessions...
...hope of survival--faces a serious future. He must forget his clubs, his tweeds, his weekends, especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become the apple of the census-taker...
...prelate is a greater friend of labor than Bishop Sheil. Last winter he gave the American Newspaper Guild his full support in its strike against the Chicago Hearst newspapers, and last summer he sat with John L. Lewis at a C. I. O. rally for Chicago packing workers (TIME, July 24). Bishop Sheil is 51, a year younger than was Archbishop Mundelein when he was made a Cardinal. Auxiliary bishops sometimes, but not always, succeed their superiors. Last week most Chicago Catholics hoped that this one would...