Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grand return to the screen for Spencer Tracy, who makes Manuel a far greater figure than he was in the book, while Freddy Bartholomew as Harvey is far above his "Lloyds of London' performance. Between them they have created the most deeply emotional characters of the year. There is almost no one in the theatre who isn't moved by the death of Manuel, or by the service in Gloucester for those lost...
...course, Trotsky is only the convenient mouthpiece for the group of cosmopolitan revolutionaries forming the general staff of the class warfare of the world, a staff possessing brain power and resources greater than anything Lenin's followers had before the War. "There is good reason to suspect that the 'Free International' has drawn a large part of its present funds from gold exported by the Government of Spain. The Spanish Republicans removed from Madrid gold of an estimated value of $400,000,000. To insure safety against claims by General Francisco Franco's Insurgents, much...
...price factor (more than 30 times as expensive, for 20% less payload efficiency) and by covert political opposition. As Columnist Dorothy Thompson wrote: "The destruction of the Hindenburg was an act of sabotage. For the peaceful world today, the world that seeks to join hands in the perfection of greater technologies, that seeks mutual enrichment and mutual understanding by all means of physical, intellectual and spiritual intercourse, is, indeed, being sabotaged by the fear and the threat of war. The Hindenburg represented the world and for that reason our eyes lighted when we saw its silver grandeur...
...seems also rather small of Mr. Curley if he forces his namesake to resign from the Law School. More slanderous remarks have been made about a greater public official than was Mr. Curley, yet the does not see cause for his sons to withdraw from Cambridge. Professor Seavey's letter of apology and acceptance of the entire blame should end the affair at once. In addition, his hope that the resigned-to-be will return marks him as a true Boston gentleman, if not a better politician than Mr. Curley...
...personalities of the chief members of the family were another valuable source of material. Mrs. Wilson was of that rare type of woman, rarer today than in her time, who believed that her place was in the home, but made it a position for distinction and achievement far greater than any career in the outside world gained by modern feminists. In this book she is given credit for the first time for her remarkable qualities as a mother and for her influence on Wilson's career...