Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked how many raindrops fell on New York City on a rainy day, the scientist got the children to agree that the number was approximately equal to the number of sand grains at Coney Island. One followed by 20 zeros was a satisfactory expression. Dr. Kasner then proposed a greater number, one of his own, which he called a "googol": 1 followed by 100 zeros. He also proposed a much greater number still, a "googol plex": 1 followed by a googol of zeros...
...majority of the winners will probably come from the middle-west, since by far a greater number of applications have been received from that part of the country...
...mythical Ivy League circuit. Including all games played, the Crimson has amassed the outstanding record of 11 triumphs against the two lone defeats, one to Dartmouth and the other to Yale. Their six victories before the opening of the league season, really made them the unofficial champions of Greater Boston, trouncing all the college teams in this vicinity...
Following their announcement came another of possibly greater future importance to the treatment of all virus diseases - the common cold, measles, smallpox, infantile paralysis, influenza, distemper. The Columbia University bacteriologist who proved that colds and influenza are due to viruses, ruddy, reticent Dr. Alphonse Raymond Dochez, reported in Science that, with the help of Dr. Charles Arthur Slanetz, he has prevented and cured distemper in dogs, cats and ferrets by injections of a new drug-sodium sulfanilyl sulfanilate. This drug, a sulfur derivative like sulfanilamide which cures certain bacterial diseases (due to streptococcus, etc.), appears, according to Drs. Dochez & Slanetz...
...last quarter of 1937 when business in the United States experienced a recession, business conditions in European nations (1 experienced an even greater depression than American business, 2 revealed a new low of the depression since 1929, 3 abated to about the same extent as in the U. S., 4 revealed no sign of abatement or check of activity, 5 became worse in Great Britain but remained about the same as during the early part of the year in other countries...