Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many elementary courses have been greatly improved and reorganized as a result of comments in previous Confidential Guides. The greater part of the Faculty welcomes intelligent, considered criticism from the students, since that is the only comment they can get on their work. But only if the Class of 1940 cooperates by commenting sincerely and helpfully on all their courses, can the Guide have any value to the incoming Class...
...room to find seated directly in their path Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey lunching with John L. Lewis. Mr. Taylor bowed, and after having seated his wife returned to chat pleasantly with the two laborites. To the Mayflower's politically sophisticated lunchers this act itself was a shocker. Greater was the shock when Messrs. Guffey & Lewis, having finished their meal, strolled over to Mr. Taylor's table, Mr. Lewis meeting Mrs. Taylor for the first time. Senator Guffey hurried on but John L. Lewis sat down for 20 minutes. Before he left Mr. Lewis remarked that he would...
Like Thomas Mann for Germany, like José Ortega y Gasset for Spain, André Gide speaks for a living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French Author Gide's reputation is enormously greater than his popularity. He had never written a best-seller until, at 67, he visited what he thought was the Promised Land, returned to confess that he was mistaken...
...fourth of the Negro population is full-blooded. To discourage marriages between Negroes and Whites a pseudo-scientific propaganda has appeared which underlines the supposed bad effects of crossing. But scientists doubt if mulattoes are inferior; among Indians they have found that mixed bloods show less sterility and greater vitality than pure bloods...
Progress towards greater coordination now lies with the railroads who have set up an organization toward this end, but the rate of progress has lagged since the office of Federal Co-ordinator was allowed to lapse last June...