Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treatment of the injured was characterized by the most callous indifference to human life and suffering. Wounded prisoners of war might have expected and received greater solicitude...
...meaning, that Franklin Roosevelt had determined to punish Mr. Van Nuys for daring to oppose him. Burning with anger, most of the Democratic Senators opposed to the bill promptly volunteered to go to Indiana and campaign for Mr. Van Nuys next year. Their anger soon rose to greater heights. Day before the Robinson funeral, the President wrote a letter to Senator Barkley who was spending the day at Hysong's funeral parlor...
...Calcutta-Lahore express plowed stolidly through one night last' week on its 1,100-mile journey. In the morning, hundreds of natives jampacked in the first five cars dozed fitfully on for they had had little sleep. In the two rear cars European passengers rode in greater comfort...
...annual cost little greater than that of a couple of infantry regiments, the U. S. Government has for about three years been the world's No. 1 patron of painting. Federal art lovers may or may not be right in thinking that this patronage will be the most fruitful since the Medicis, but in one respect at least it has encouraged a Renaissance. This is in the field of mural painting...
...modern skyscraper type was chiefly a matter of making the necessary high speeds comfortable and safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator cannot be greater than 14 ft. per sec. without causing passengers' knees to buckle as gravity's pull abruptly increases their weight.* To slow down and stop high speed elevators Otis perfected its "signal control" system, by which contacts made at every floor with the braking mechanism become effective only when a button...