Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even harder was it for young gallery-goers to realize the excitement and opposition that these pictures caused when they were first painted. The Eight were not interested in either technical or political experiments. George Luks, for example, had a larger capacity for beer and a greater ingenuity at general hell-raising than almost any Greenwich Villager before or since. Yet the two little girls dancing to a barrel organ in last week's show, or the puzzled baby watching her bald father play the guitar, are blameless bits of conservative painting. The mere fact, 30 years ago, that...
...long last "Parker v. Tribune" went to the jurymen after Mr. Parker had addressed them for the greater part of a day. Cried Promoter Parker: "The leopard never changes his spots! Once an honest man, always an honest man!" He called the jury's attention to his spotless record on the Tribune. Mr. Parker regards the present-day Tribune as Chicago's greatest liability, once assured a crowd at a stump speech for Presidential Candidate William Lemke that Col. McCormick was both Chicago's "Dictator" and its "Public Enemy No. 1." Col. McCormick had a doughty champion...
Through the Social Service Committee the Phillips Brooks House does its most constructive work outside the University. Through it are furnished over 150 graduates and undergraduates to do personnel work for charity organizations, clinics, and the twenty settlement houses of the Greater Boston area...
...will be best at different seasons and various stages of the sunspot cycle. Few years ago when many short-wave police radio stations were set up, the ranges were generally limited to 30 or 40 miles, since the signals escaped through the thin ionosphere into outer space. Now, with greater ion density in the upper air, messages for New York City police radio cars sometimes even carry across the Atlantic Ocean...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York was the first top-rank executive of the nation to call a venereal disease by its name. Said he: "Once the facts become generally known, the humanitarian appeal of syphilis will be fully as great, or even greater than that presented by any communicable disease...