Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greater New York's four $150,000 winners last week, most erudite was a 38-year-old, $2,400-a-year City College psychology instructor named Walter Vogt, whose ticket was signed "Alpha Omega." When reporters arrived to congratulate him on his good fortune, Psychologist Vogt ran upstairs, crawled out on a fire escape, announced he was going for a nickel ride on the subway. Most elusive winner was Betty Fitzgerald, switchboard operator for an importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John...
...tutorial system because of a conviction that there is a considerable number of students who, in the mastery of their fields of concentration and preparation for the general examinations, would profit more by a less intensive form of tutorial instruction than has been generally given, and by a somewhat greater reliance upon course work...
...There has for some years been a trend in the direction of such a differentiation of preparation through the granting of course reduction to high honors candidates and by the greater amount of time and attention given to those students who give evidence of profiting most from a good deal of independent work. The recent vote of the Faculty Council, therefore, merely gives formal recognition to a development which has been going on for a number of years...
...collection of bells, (they are played but once a month) Lowell House was one of the three new units built in 1930 to complete the present House Plan. Physically it is a beautiful example of Georgian architecture; and the quiet beauty of its two courts is made all the greater by contrast with the noise and confusion which holds forth without its walls...
Hoping to stimulate greater undergraduate interest in debating, the Debating Council will try to keep proceedings more informal than usual, and give the audience a greater part in the evening's discussions...