Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side the following points should be made. Butler was a great purifier. He deflated Victorian optimism, but remained a healthy and vigorous and decently optimistic mind. The Way of All Flesh is not a hymn of hate against his father, but in greater part a caricature of himself as a young man. The delay in its publication was due to a desire not to hurt the feelings of his sister Charlotte. He would have married Mme Dumas, about whom Mr. Muggeridge tells an incredibly scandalous story; but she herself did not wish it, because under the terms...
...destination and asked them to get out, they refused. One said: "We will have a sitdown strike." When the driver threatened to remove them and their baggage from his vehicle by force, a strike committee pointed out that the energy output involved in any such procedure would be greater than that required to take them to the university. The driver yielded to this logic, drove his passengers to Swain Hall...
...richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports in 1929 surpassed that of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific ports of the U. S. combined. The gross tonnage of ships employed on the Great Lakes in 1929 was greater than that of the merchant fleet of Holland and nearly equaled the French merchant marine. The backbone of this trade is ore. Last week, because Steel's big winter had depleted supplies of ore at Lake Erie docks to 2,851,951 tons, little more than half the amount...
...Great Lakes trade. Shipping men last week predicted that the tonnage shipped this year will equal the 1929 record of 138,574,441 tons, that the Sault Ste. Marie locks, busiest in the world, will pass a tonnage equal to that of 1929, when they had a traffic greater than that of the Panama and Suez Canals combined...
Clochemerle, a small French provincial town in the Beaujolais wine district, was governed in 1923 by a shrewdly ambitious mayor. Progress within reasonable limits, and to the greater glory of the administration, was his realistic policy. What Clochemerle needed, thought the mayor, was a public urinal. The thing was erected, and unveiled with fitting ceremony before the whole town. And then the trouble began...