Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan, Republicans, in numbers far greater (3 to 2) than the Democratic primary voters, chose Frank D. Fitzgerald to run in November against Governor Frank Murphy, who ousted Mr. Fitzgerald in 1936. No Senator was involved: all incumbent Representatives (eight Democrats, nine Republicans) were renominated except Democrat George Sadowski who lost to Mayor Rudolph Tenerowicz of Hamtramck...
Causes of present diplomatic crises in Europe will be studied in one of the thirty afternoon and evening courses of college grade offered this fall and winter for Greater Boston adults by the Massachusetts Commission on Extension Courses in Wadsworth House...
...Hall plans to give a series of twenty-four Friday afternoon and Saturday evening concerts, together with a shorter series of six Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon concerts. Already subscribers for the four series outnumber those of last year. Student applicants from Harvard and other schools and colleges in Greater Boston represent almost every American state and possession, with Texas occupying the lead...
...cosy little port of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, people know lanky young Alfred Kenney not only as the village photographer but as the star pitcher of Shelburne's baseball team. Lately he pitched a no-hit, no-run game against Lockeport. Last week Alfred Kenney gained greater kudos. All summer he had been hearing about the sport-only a few years old in Nova Scotia-of catching giant bluefin tuna ("horse mackerel" to old salts) on rod & reel. Up the coast at Liverpool a Cuban team had just won this year's international tuna matches from...
...Cereal makers have learned to go after the kiddies around the wash-for-suppertime, soap makers like to catch housewives at the morning laundry or noon dishes. But the fact remains that of the average 65% of their time the networks boast of giving away, by far the greater part is in the daytime. Commercial radio, like many a maiden, looks best after dark...