Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laying off until Thursday, the great Harvard sprint crew that met defeat at the hands of an even greater Navy outfit will begin its drive for New London and Yale late in the week...
...launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
...That gas, which we assume was present in the top of the ship, was ignited either by lightning or by a static spark. The meteorological situation . . . was such that a greater potential gradient* could not be present at the time of the fire. ... If one studies the wind directions and velocities and temperatures more closely as indicated on the charts, he can recognize that the first storm must have been followed by a smaller...
...Airliner last month the rubber boot split, on another a section of the wing's skin crystallized and tore away. These incidents were minor, but enough to cause a Bureau of Air Commerce request that all present deicers be removed from DC-38 and improved to meet the greater stresses imposed by this biggest of U. S. land transports...
Alumni activities will occupy the greater part of the afternoon. At this time the results of the balloting for Overseers and Directors of the Alumni Association and members of the Harvard Fund Council will be announced...