Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary also produced an obstacle to the Governor's greater ambitions. Older than his National Progressives of America is the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, a by-product of Minnesota's potent Farmer-Labor Party-a similar attempt to expand a State third-party machine beyond State borders. The burgeoning National Progressives, already a force in California politics and last fortnight unsuccessfully implored by Democratic Governor Nelson Kraschel to abandon their plans for a three-cornered race in Iowa this year, have more than once rubbed elbows with Farmer-Laborites but have preserved a state of truce. This year...
Second Sunday. As they did the Sunday before, French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet came over to London last Sunday, this time cheered with much greater enthusiasm by English crowds in Whitehall, which rang loudly with La Marseillaise...
...standing within ten yards of a large bomb will be torn to pieces, and the pieces thrown for hundreds of yards. A brick wall is not merely knocked down. It is shattered into a hail of projectiles which may kill people at a great distance. At a still greater distance the blast is translated into a wave of sound, but a sound like that of the last trumpet which literally flattens out everything in front of it. ... It is the last sound that many people ever hear, even if they are not killed, because their eardrums are burst...
...throne regretting that rearmament is already costing The Netherlands so much that the frugal budget for 1939 is unbalanced by 145,000,000 florins ($78,300,000). Realist Queen Wilhelmina warned her subjects that Her Majesty's Government may be forced during the coming year to ask "greater sacrifices...
...sharp-eyed women maintained they could tell the difference at a glance). The new fibre (made of complex nitrogen compounds, among them cadaverine*), as silky as silk itself, can be produced in sizes one-tenth to one-seventy-fifth finer than silk filament, and in some sizes has 150% greater tensile strength. Its elasticity is such that it can be stretched up to 700% of its normal length. So far no one has attempted to produce it commercially. Hence chemists do not know what it will cost, though it is estimated it will be somewhat dearer than rayon, may cost...