Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result was inaccessibility on the part of these men, who because of their wide knowledge, should be the first to come into close contact with the student, help him with his problems, and through their teaching ability, inspire the undergraduate to greater activity and understanding of the course material...
Refining the devastating White Spanish technique at the blasting of the Basque "Holy City" of Guernica (TIME, May 10), Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews commanding the Muroc air war, had spotted an outline of Greater Los Angeles on the desert with circles and triangles representing such legitimate combatant bomb targets as munitions plants, railheads, bridges. First blood last week went to Brigadier General Gerald C. Brant's attacking force which theoretically blasted the Douglas Aircraft factory at Culver City to bits...
...Government sets greater store by its secrets, large and small, than the State Department. Prime secrets of State are treaty negotiations. Last week Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, who has been a woman for 66 years, had been a diplomat only five minutes when, immediately after being sworn in as Minister to Norway (TIME, April 12 et seq.), she received the press. At her elbow stood the State Department's grey, genial pressagent, Chief Michael J. McDermott of the Division of Current Information...
...whom he could be proud- dutiful, earnest, orthodox, obedient, anxious to please. Much has been written of the physical strain of a Coronation service for a monarch. For an elderly Archbishop who must stand on his feet through all the hours of the service the strain is even greater. The crimson-coped Archbishop of York, plump William Temple, had little to do but weave about among the regalia. In 1902 at the Coronation of Edward VII, his father was Archbishop of Canterbury. Vividly last week he must have recalled that at that lengthy service Archbishop Temple's hands trembled...
Grey curtains of rain trailed over the slates and chimney pots of London as the night-before-Coronation fell. Under the square miles of rooftops, in the slums and swank mansions, in suburban villas and the fine hotels, "Coronation" was the word most often on every lip as Greater London's 8,000,000 inhabitants, plus at least 1,500,000 visitors from the provinces, from the Dominions and colonies, from the U. S. and from every country in Europe, Asia, South America, even from the larger States of India and tribes of British Africa, all thought and spoke...