Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second place, we and you have the same task before us. I am especially interested in Canada to discover that nearly all our problems are paralleled by yours. We have the same economic problems. Senators, I cannot imagine a greater bond between two nations than that they should engage in the same tasks and for the same purposes...
...practical purposes all the arguments pro & con had already been exhausted. With three or four more weeks of hearings in prospect, not the merits of the issue but the behavior of its Senatorial pro-&-antagonists became the greater influence upon its fate...
...observation that trouble followed when the curve of durable goods industries passed the curve of consumer goods industries, Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres noted: "The recovery in durable goods is always faster than in nondurable goods. ... It is true that improvement in durable goods is greater than in nondurable, but it is also true that most of the men still unemployed need to be employed in durable goods industries."* Since the pump of heavy industry had been fully primed, no one seriously objected to a cessation of Government spending for that purpose. But to shift the spending...
...President would be any better equipped to deal with strikes if he had a revamped Supreme Court. How much, asked Mr. Lippmann, had Mr. Roosevelt done about two serious shipping strikes? And a political critic, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, declaring to the Senate that "there is nothing of greater importance to the nation at the present time," intimated that it was high time the President took action about the Sit-Down epidemic...
...Earth's magnetic field. These bullets were so powerful that 16 cm. of lead slowed them hardly more than 4 cm. It followed, according to accepted theory, that they could not be electrons, for electrons would have been more than a thousand times more strongly absorbed by the greater thickness of lead. They must therefore be either negative protons or some wholly unsuspected negatively charged particle, and since there was already a theoretical demand for negative protons, Dr. Bhabha preferred to set them down as such. U. S. physicists rubbed their chins, decided to wait a while before committing...