Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entered the area near the Czechoslovakian border coming from Germany," they said, "we kept noticing greater and greater readiness...
...York ($25,000), actively governs 7,000,000 people, has the third toughest elective job in the nation. Above it in difficulty, short of the Presidency, only the Governorship of New York is supposed to rank. But other jobs, such as Vice President, Senator or Cabinet member, bring greater kudos. He would be a dull New York mayor indeed who did not tour the U. S. to give voters outside of New York a chance to look him over. No dullard is the incumbent, stumpy, staccato, hard-working New Deal Republican Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry LaGuardia. He is also...
...four years 35 physicians all over the U. S. have given 250 patients intramuscular injections of Arthranol. Over 90% of the patients were relieved. Many patients with the less severe hypertrophic arthritis were completely cured, and those with the incurable atrophic form attained greater freedom of movement. Said Dr. Stern: "First benefits in acute stages are evident in from 24 to 72 hours. No ill effect has been noted...
...Because the marble-smooth salt in the early morning is marble cold, cools friction-heated tires, lessens a driver's greatest fear: blowouts. Meteorologists also claim that a greater speed can be attained in the rare air of Bonneville (4,300 feet above sea level). A speed of 345 m.p.h. at Bonneville would be only 293 m.p.h. at sea level...
...south. A large tongue may stretch for 1,500 miles across the U. S., and 20 or 30 smaller streaks may be observed in one day, forming a roof over the entire continent. Plotted on a meteorological map they resemble a mass of partly coiled snakes. Although the greater area of each tongue remains at uniform specific humidities, the extremities tend to undergo changes. At the southern ends of the dry tongues heat is lost and dry air descends from the upper regions. The northern ends of the wet tongues tend to condense, pass mois ture to the dry tongues...