Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale is apparent from the idealistic blood-oath taken by each of the members "testifying to his resolution of chastity and obedience until a Romanoff sits again on the Russian throne." The consequences of such a promise in any average American community, or even to New York debutantes, is greater than the Dies Committee itself could imagine. Of all the great oaths in history, none have gone so far. Even the Ten Commandments included only "obedience." What means the revolutionists will use to impose "chastity" is beyond the wildest imagination. Already they seem to have made one step towards...
...attract a student clientele; it was a young university. Now its position is more firmly established. Now a minimum of great names is needed to maintain its place in the sun. What is needed, however, to improve the second and now more important source of its greatness is a greater emphasis on teaching in order to train the embryo "great names" of the future...
...objected that a Book Center would merely double the House libraries. But among the average nine thousand books are found only course texts with few additional volumes. The difference between this number and the one hundred thousand books contained in the Center is a measure of the greater amount of material that is to be located there. While House libraries serve only as academic filling stations, the Book Center would be an educational super-service station...
...sustain current levels of business activity there is need for greater consumption by the public, as well as increased capital expenditures by business or enlarged exports. . . . Before the war started the business outlook was good, but the speculative price and inventory activity of the past month has endangered this prospect...
...boom production has been greater than consumption and inventories have piled high. Unless belligerents begin to buy on a big scale, or home consumption picks up, an inventory recession is inevitable. In this delicate situation, the outcome, he estimated, would be determined by whether businessmen encourage buying by holding prices down or discourage buying by boosting prices. He pointed out that although the U. S. is short of neither materials, labor, nor capital, the prices of raw materials have ominously risen 10% since August...