Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also hoped that there will be far more extensive coaching facilities. These will enable the Rifle Team to make greater progress and possibly letters may be given within a few years by the H. A. A. Thus Riflery will become a fully authorized minor sport with far larger membership and equipment...
...first time the cover will have a Harvard scene as the background on the cover. Although the book will be approximately the same size as that of a year ago, new features have been included. Outstanding is an article on education at Harvard during the past four years. Greater length will be given to a stories on sports and the Houses...
Small compared to the quantitative increase in U. S. productive capacity in 1920-29, the Five-Year Plans represented a greater rate of increase. They doubled Russia's industrial stature, made her an industrial power, left her self-sufficient in production of oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, cellulose, cotton, super phosphates. But it set a vast segment of the Russian proletariat moving from factory to factory, from village to city, in one of the great tidal movements of humanity that Tolstoy long ago described as the ceaseless wanderings of workmen over the earth. It ended uniform wages. Breakdowns, delays...
...discovery of further and greater cosmic motions may be made when bigger telescopes (such as Caltech's 200-inch) are completed. At present the visible universe is a galaxy-studded space a billion light-years in diameter. Some day it may be found that this whole aggregation with its hidden fringes is moving as an organized system relative to other aggregations of comparable size, not yet seen...
...integrated companies (such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texas Corporation, Gulf Oil), this is not vital. If their refining operations show a loss, it is merely a bookkeeping matter provided that their crude oil production is efficient, shows a greater profit, for they still have net earnings. To Consolidated Oil which has to buy approximately half the crude oil it refines-and to other refiners without their own crude oil supply-the difference between the prices of crude and of gasoline is serious...