Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present, the magazine has 2,200 subscribers but the number of readers is much greater as the copies are usually forwarded to several other blind persons. Some are known to be regularly sent as far as Australia. Some are read to groups of the blind who have not learned to read the Braille system, so that the number of those who benefit from each issue is many times the 2,200 circulation. Many blind people without means receive the magazine because of the kindness of someone who has donated the subscription price...
...libertarian Utopia is far from Mr. Miller's mind. After 24 years in "a grandstand seat at the most momentous show in history," his tortured conclusion is that "the price the world must pay-and is already paying- for the material advantages of the modern machine is increasingly greater curtailment and restriction of the personal liberty of people. . . . Under authoritarian governments in which one man virtually sways the destinies of his country, nations are more than ever moved by the same emotions, instincts and interests as the single individual. It is conceivable that a dictator awakening one morning with...
...violating a village ordinance by living in a dwelling with less than 400 sq. ft. of floor space. Gumarsol retorted that his trailer was licensed as an automobile accessory. Legally, the case thus hinged on a single local law. But all participants admitted that it pointed up the greater issues of whether trailers should be taxed as personal property or as realty, and whether trailerfolk may continue their present carefree, taxfree, squatter way of life or are to be regulated by a set of brand-new laws...
...matter of practical industrial relations it is almost imperative to give employes something extra when they know that stockholders are being showered. Bonuses, ranging from the $10,000,000 appropriated by General Motors last fortnight to common Christmas presents planned in hundreds of little businesses, have a greater vogue this year than ever before...
...Mavis to snort: "Fine goings on around here!" By the time she learns that the young man's relations with his fiancée are not premature, the situation has considerably changed. She loses interest in both the inventor and the Congressman, rides off wrapped around the pressagent. Greater than her importance to the U. S. cinema public, which could presumably get along without her, is Mae West's importance as a lexicon of those slouching wisecracks, grimy proverbs and reckless, light-hearted double-entendres without which the great mass of the U. S. population would be almost...