Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to say whether the psychological insight of the writer or the dramatic revelation of the artist constitute the greater triumph. In any event each throws a revealing searchlight upon the other...
...French they recalled their Ambassador "for a report." Like the U. S., they refused to recognize the seizure and thus locked up an estimated $60,000,000 worth of Czech funds in London. The U. S., in addition, set up a 25% higher tariff wall against the products of Greater Germany (see p.11...
Having started with 181,268 square miles of territory and a population of 65,218,258, the Aggrandizer last week had in his hands a Reich far greater than pre-War Germany. The German Empire of 1914 covered 208,800 square miles and included 67,812,000 Germans. The German Empire of 1939 covers 259,375 square miles with a population of 86,590,491 -not all Germans...
Much confusion resulted from reports of the ultimatum, but at week's end the main results were that Rumania agreed to give Germany temporarily a greater share of her trade while refusing to surrender any political rights. Discussions were described as "progressing amicably," which probably meant that Rumania would be as tractable as she thought necessary, would stanchly refuse to give in if backed by Britain and France. Meanwhile, just in case of trouble, King Carol ordered some 500,000 soldiers to man Rumania's western frontiers...
...romance in terms of regimented femininity. Prison Without Bars, a great European success in its original version last year, has been admirably remade in English. It differs from its predecessors principally in that this time the institution involved happens to be a reformatory in which the superintendent stands in greater need of reformation than the inmates...