Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the picture that as rapidly taking shape in Cambridge. Along with the continuous increase in the number of concentrators in Government and Economics, an increase brought about by the growing importance of government in the national economy, has come a recognition that public service will absorb a greater percentage of Harvard graduates than ever before. And the Littauer School, another offshot of this movement, will attempt to give these men specialized training before they take up their individual positions on the governmental payroll...
...side with courses and examinations with teeth in them goes the need for wider scholarship aids, if American education is to fulfill its whole function in the community. A system of learning that excludes from a university education and hence from professional training, those whose ability and ambition is greater than their bank accounts does not pull its full load in a democratic society...
Outstanding phenomenon of the ascent was the thick and phosphorescent appearance of the balloon ropes at greater elevations. This, Major Stevens explained, was caused by escape of sea level air and water vapor from the fibers of the rigging, at a pressure one-fifth of normal, which formed a foggy cloud around each rope...
...army officer gave as definition of "stratosphere" the "region where temperature ceases to fall and becomes substantially constant". Laying emphasis on the failure to penetrate beyond a transition zone of light and heavy atmosphere, he expressed a conviction that with the accessibility to a greater elevation a more distinct transformation would be evident. Results of the recent flight yielded valuable specimens of ozone, a high oxygen layer which deflects ultraviolet rays, and revealed the presence of living spores and bacteria at the highest altitudes...
...their immediate advantage to have contractors competing for labor. And the locals in the main are against indenturing apprentices. Wages for common labor in the building trades are already above 1929 levels, while skilled labor on the average is near the old highs. The rise has actually been greater than apparent because building mechanics in Depression often worked for considerably less than union scales. What the building industry fears is that labor costs will rise so sharply that the promised boom will be gravely retarded...