Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something of his hopes were expressed in the following, at his inauguration in 1909: "A greater solidarity in college, more earnestness of purpose and intellectual enthusiasm would mean much for our nation. It is said that if the temperature of the ocean were raised, the water would expand until the floods covered the dry land; and if we can increase the intellectual ambition of college students, the whole face of our country will change. When the young men shall see visions the dreams of old men will come true...
...United States has no greater interests, either culturally, nationally or commercially, than those she has within the South American continent. The nations to the south have been formed by nature as our neighbors and the bonds between ourselves and these several states were recognized many years ago by Monroe and others as being too close to permit either foreign aggression or internal strivings to go on without resulting danger to ourself. Though at that time, a sound policy, the far-famed Monroe doctrine since has lapsed into a form of economic imperialism which has aroused bitterness and suspicion within...
...their fingers calmly together, Chinese statesmen opined to fascinated white correspondents that it would surely be the part of wisdom for European nations, now so petulantly drifting into another War and with Munitions Broker Sir Basil Zaharoff dead, to buy each other off rather than blunder into the much greater expense of fighting...
Said Sponsor Gates: "The primary purpose of the Cultural Olympics will be first to discover, and second to encourage both children and adults who have latent talents in cultural pursuits. ... It is expected that the future development of the program will provide for a far greater number of competitions to be conducted over a much larger area...
...Find greater ease in my big green chair, my feet on the bed. I browse in the plays, hunting for the songs therein. They are my delight...