Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nerve centre of a diocese is its cathedral, and in the view of many a bishop the finer the cathedral the greater the diocese. Last week, addressing the annual convention of his diocese in Columbus, Bishop Hobson paid his respects to the life of such cathedrals as those in Manhattan and Washington, then continued: "It just happens that the situation in southern Ohio is somewhat different, and perhaps you have a rather strange bishop. . . . If someone came to me today with the offer-'Here's a million-or five million-dollars for your Cathedral,' I would have...
...Plan for Greater Economy...
Nearly a thousand members of Greater Boston school and church groups have been guests of the Harvard College Astronomical Observatory in Cambridge on the Friday Open Nights of the past five months, Harlow Shapley, director, said today...
This attitude is, of course, the correct position to take. The work of the men in question, Dr. Conant said, was carefully considered by those in the university in a position to known, with the result that they reported that "there are others among their contemporaries of greater potentialities." Hence their three-year contracts were not renewed. Instead they were offered contracts for two years, a fact which seems in itself enough to silence any criticism that they were being "dropped" for their political views. Both, it happens, have been active in radical circles. But so have many other young...
...Henry Adams. Just out of the nickleodeon era, the movies in America were far inferior to European productions, and attracted only a million persons a day. In 1912, however, the entertainment became an art under the patronage of the great Bernhardt, an event perhaps more portentious than others with greater space in the newspapers...