Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural shoulders and draped waistline makes for greater formality and well groomed...
...expected that the number of these spots will increase during the next three years with the maximum number being reached about 1939. Loring B. Andrws '25, instructor in astronomy, declared that the present outburst of sunspottedness is merely the forerunner of an expected greater number of spots in the future...
...observations, as it has been for over a year in the day time, the radio balloon meteorograph becomes the best instrument for securing routine data of temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in the upper air. With an upper ceiling of 15 to 20 miles, the free balloon reaches much greater heights than weather airplanes. Its readings are transmitted automatically by short wave radio to a receiver on the ground, where the conditions are recorded on a revolving drum...
...charge at windmills with great energy, do inestimable harm to the cause of conservatism that they represent. If they propose to suppress all organizations that do not receive their paternal blessing, they have no right to call themselves defenders of liberty. The opponents of radical doctrines would make much greater headway if they would devote their energy towards making intellectual arguments against communism, rather than snooping on a few college liberals...
Madrid's tallest so-called skyscraper, the 14-story, U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. building, received three of the famed German superincendiary thermite bombs on its roof last week, but after sizzling according to specifications "with a heat greater than that of molten iron," they finally sizzled out without setting fire. Downstairs the tall, sleek president of I. T. & T., Lieut.-Colonel Sosthenes Behn, an acquaintance of absent Alfonso XIII, remained very much present in Madrid, where he has chosen to stay during the whole of Spain's present civil war. Scores of panic-stricken Madrid...