Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past eight months' experience in building may well be the beginning of a new cycle for construction in the United States-a period that will be greater and longer in building activity than we have ever seen before." So said President Samuel M. Waters of the Mortgage Bankers' Association at a Texas convention last week...
...Green, as it had been of his mother. He had managed to pay no income taxes to any State by the simple process of citing to the tax collectors of each his residence in the others, especially Texas. Sharply condemning "migratory millionaires," Master Flannery opined that "conduct is of greater evidential value than mere declaration of intent...
With the Rhine thus linked to the Baltic, next job will be to bring Ludwig's Rhine-Main-Danube canal up to date. Now it is used chiefly by canoeists, but by 1945 it is expected to be able to accommodate 1,200-ton lighters. Moving cheaply from Greater Germany down into the Danube and Balkan countries, these are expected to extend German influence and manufactured goods markets, return laden with ore, cereals and oil to fill the German need for raw materials...
...trying hard to persuade Administrator Elmer F. Andrews to find that newspaper employes do not come under the rules of the Wages-&-Hours Act. Mr. Hanson based his arguments on 1) Section 13 (a) (2) of the Act, which exempts employes of any "retail or service establishment the greater part of whose selling or servicing is in intrastate commerce"; 2) Section 13 (a) (1) which exempts "professional" employes; 3) Section 2 (a) which would exempt industries not engaged in "commerce or in the production of goods for commerce...
...chosen. All cannot be as profound and as stimulating as Dean Matthews, nor as interesting as Professor Hopper. But in proportion as better choices continue to be made, so will the University community, which is always ready to recognize merit as it is to ignore mediocrity, respond with greater chapel attendance...