Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piled up, but there was one team he always lost to--Yale. Kiphuth was coaching the Elis then, too, so that accounts still further for the joy with which his defeat was greeted. When Ulen came to Harvard, he realized his chances of licking Kiphuth were just so much greater here because of the traditional rivalry between the Crimson and the Blue. Never did this rivalry reach a higher point than it did as Ulen at last got his heart's desire...
...Three-Mile Limit only one hour before the House passed a bill making such shipments illegal. As she chugged off to Vera Cruz to pick up $1,300,000 more in munitions, disgruntled U. S. neutralityites opined that though she had passed the Scylla of Congress she might have greater difficulty avoiding the Charybdis of Rebel Spanish cruisers lured by her fame...
...front" the air at the boundary is twisted and violent disturbances are likely to occur. The Weather Bureau is by no means the U. S. pioneer in this meteorological technique. In fact the Bureau's critics, of which it always has plenty, have reproached it for not making greater use of the method once its value was demonstrated. The Bureau has a quick retort: it is doing what it can on its exiguous budget ($3,861,000 for the current year...
...merely the Babe Ruth of Australia. A discussion about how close to the batsman's body it is sporting for a fast bowler to pitch his ball strained British political relations with Australia in 1933. When King Edward abdicated last winter the consternation in Australia was no greater than that which would have prevailed last week had Braddles been "bowled for a duck egg" (put out with no runs). For Braddles to abdicate would simply be unthinkable. A cricket prodigy, Braddles, now 28, was born in Cootamundra, New South Wales, left school at 16 to devote all his time...
...Today you are giving us a party to celebrate the Opening of Greater Plant 2 of the Trane Co.," the advertisement continued. "You have left nothing undone to make us happy in many ways. We owe you and the rest of the Management a lot. . . . We are not working for the Trane Co. We are working with the Trane Co. for a common good-yours and ours. We realize that this procedure may seem unusual, but we'd like to have you know just the way we feel. The very culmination of this message is proof of its sincerity...