Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lunette above the door represents the cavern of Niebelheim. The dwarfs who inhabit this underground region are working to create the destructive wealth of the world, symbolized in the legend by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold, for their ruler, Alberich, who is lashing them on to greater labors...
...such courses as Mathematics A, in various sciences, and in Geology 1, where three periods a week are used for lectures, a reading period is both unnecessary and impracticable. But it takes time to attend classes and even greater time to prepare for recitations. A student should be relieved of these routine duties, and be given a few days in which to study for an examination...
Relieved of the burden of a worthless schedule, the members of the team can now move on to develop a greater interest in boxing within the walls of the college. For withdrawal from outside competition has no connection with the curtailment of the six other minor sports which retrenchments and economics are reducing to semi-informal level, since just as much money is to be spent in supplying coaching, equipment, and other necessaries as ever before. Thus boxing enthusiasts can look forward to an interest, and not a diminution, of facilities and interest, and a future of much promise opens...
...nights, seven hours and twenty minutes, and he could devote only one minute to each drug, telling the arthritic how and when to use it." According to Northwestern's Mayers, the ludicrous abundance of ethical, proprietary or quack liniments also sold in drugstores to arthritics "is of no greater therapeutic value than would be a hot, wet towel to the afflicted joint." In contrast, conscientious doctors have some three dozen different drugs, four liniments to treat one of the three most stubborn, chronic U. S. diseases...
Students of surrealism rank with Founder Breton and converted Dadaist Max Ernst, several practitioners of equal or greater importance. There is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities, adding to one work a startling note by carefully painting realistic tea biscuits on the end of a painted crate. There is Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly...