Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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P.B.H. annually sends out hundreds of volunteer workers to settlement houses in greater Boston, aids foreign students, supplies speakers, holds Harvard - Radcliffe teas, and sponsors a number of other activities. There is a separate Freshman Committee...
Seasoned, but not certainties, Healey and Hallett rank first as tackles, but will have an increasingly difficult job holding their berths as two Sophomores, Vern Miller and Tom Gardiner, develop with experience. Weakness at ends places even greater responsibility on the tackles, always a key position...
...people in Alaska bought $42,000,000 of U. S. products-more than Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Finland, Portugal or Spain, all countries with much greater population, and only slightly less than Russia and Brazil...
This week, with greater impartiality than most diplomatic arbitrators show, the River Hai (pronounced High) flooded Tientsin-Japanese and British Concessions alike. Barbed wire on wooden trestles and wooden sheds for searching and stripping were washed away. The barbed wire blockade was off; a water blockade-of the whole city-was on. ^ In Shanghai, Sergeant W. L. Kinloch of the International Settlement police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting...
...would still have its own industrial area behind it-provided the Germans had not got into the triangle by the backdoor. On the south (Slovakia) the triangle is guarded by the Carpathians which stand next to the Alps as a first-class natural fortification. On the west it faces greater danger from attack across the German border in the area between Breslau and the Moravian Gate. In this region many an observer believes that the first great battle of a German-Polish war may be fought...