Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorson admitted that prospects have been better in former years, but explains this fact by the rise in popularity of squash in other colleges. In past years it was easy for Harvard, the main exponent of squash, to dominate the scene, but now because of squash's greater popularity the good players are being more evenly distributed among the colleges...
Although all stipends are adjusted to individual needs, the maximum which can be received in upper-class years is $200 greater than that which can be granted Freshmen, owing to the proportionally higher cost of living in the Houses. Twenty-four men in the Junior and Senior classes are now wholly or partially supported by the National Scholarship fund...
...Sudeten Nazi Party's activities within the Czechoslovak State. Last week in Prague up popped Sudeten Nazi No. 3, Ernst Kundt, who was Führer Henlein's mouthpiece in the now-adjourned Czechoslovak National Assembly. Confident that the mutilated republic does not dare talk back to Greater Germany, Nazi Kundt announced that he and seven other former Sudeten parliamentary representatives would stay in Czechoslovakia "to promote the welfare of the German minority...
...Mass unbalance, affecting in at least one case a whole large nation," says he, "mass hysterias, panics, fears and what not, are becoming increasingly a greater neuro-semantic menace than any plague has been." Whether General Semantics will become a cult such as technocracy, or will rank in historic importance with the work of Aristotle and Einstein, as not a few scientists believe, it is spreading rapidly in the U. S. Already 3,000 copies of Science and Sanity, an extraordinarily difficult book of 781 pages, have been sold...
Higher compression translates into more efficient operation because it gets greater power punch on less fuel. It also necessitates a stronger and heavier motor to absorb the increased shock. For this reason, and because Diesels have not yet reached the mass production stage, they are costly. A Ford truck gasoline motor, for example, costs about $150, a comparable Diesel about...