Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the Harvard Law Review exhibits what is justifiably considered by laymen the worst vice of attorneys-quibbling over the insignificant. The learned editor apparently has a greater future as a pettifogger than as an attorney...
...Kuomintang Party Congress concluded fortnight ago on a note of harmony with the Chinese Communists, was still cautious. "There is still a long way to go," admitted Chiang. "Let us not be proud or over-satisfied with preliminary success, or discouraged by temporary reverses! Let us fight with greater determination...
...plebiscite last week throughout Greater Germany, Austrians voted 99.75% in support of Adolf Hitler and union. In Germany proper, where two years ago Hitler won by 98.79%, he last week won by 98.63%. The official count admitted 452,180 votes of "No," 75,342 spoiled ballots. Just before midnight, with returns virtually complete, the Dictator exulted over a nationwide hookup: "For me this hour is the proudest in my life...
...British angle on all this was that Sir Sidney Clive, the astute Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, had in masterly fashion secured both high U. S. Democratic and high U. S. Republican sponsorship for cutting out some 25 U. S. presentations. Sir Sidney is cutting out enormously greater numbers of presentations of British women, but that he can do without risk-whereas His Majesty's Government have been most wary of antagonizing any potent U. S. tycoons, wives & daughters...
...persuasive synthesis. Shrewd observers ticket Mumford as the type of the New Liberal, find his typical antagonist in Old Liberal Walter Lippmann, who last autumn offered his version of The Good Society (TIME, Sept. 27). Old liberals and new liberals will differ as to which is the greater realist...