Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory over Yale were twin highlights of the International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League competition last week. McGill turned back one of the chief rivals for the crown it is defending, Queens University, 7 to 3, while Princeton scored its first triumph in Quadrangular League play and its second in greater-league competition by turning in the highest score made in the circuit this season...
...first time in recent years, Harvard is to be canvassed by an outside charity organization. The change in Student Council policy which is permitting the Greater Boston Community Fund to appeal with official blessing directly to the University's 13,000 officers, teachers, students, and employees is an indication of the new era of town and gown relationships...
...Czecho-Slovakia (Ruthenia) and the most fertile and second most populous of the eleven major constituent states of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Ukrainian S.S.R.). No great loss would it be for Czechoslovakia to lose undeveloped Ruthenia, with only 550,000 inhabitants, to a Hitler-inspired "Greater Ukraine." Rumania also could well survive after her Ukrainian districts, with 800,000 inhabitants, had been detached. For Poland, however, the loss of eastern Galicia, with her 5,400,000 Ukrainians, would be irreparable, while for Russia the forcible detachment of 32,600,000 Ukrainians, plus 7,000,000 other nationals living...
...really important, but he is Irish: he has rich-juiced dialogue, abundant humor, powerful characterizations. Mellow, charming Canon Lavelle and frigid, heartless Father Shaughnessy possibly provide too pat a contrast. But both are brilliant stage characters, inspire the belief that Carroll will some day achieve an even greater creation-mere human beings...
...very large numerical majority of stockholders in American corporations has a dangerously inadequate representation on their corporate boards. . . . The average modern director does not direct the course of the corporation to a much greater extent than a conductor directs the course of his trolley car. Both of them go along with the vehicle ; and one of them is often present only for the sake of the ride...