Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Providence has a handful of stars who stand out as fine swimmers in any league, it is expected that Charlie Hutter and his mates will outshine them for the evening, not only because of the Crimson's superior individual performers, but on account of their greater reserve strength, which will mean a lot of second places as well as firsts...
...proves that its innovating poet and author in also a master of drama. The play in dramatic because it centers about a great problem seeking its solution in the career of a heroic figure. The problem in that of assertion of self as against self-effacing participation in a greater cause; of acting as against suffering...
...trading there is no fixed brokerage commission as in the exchanges, and dealers generally charge what the traffic will bear. Most o-t-c dealers prefer to sell as traders because the "spread" between what they paid for a security and what they sell it for can be far greater than are most commissions. In both cases, however, customers have little means of telling whether they are quoted a fair price or charged a fair commission...
...predicts that its Diesels will operate at half the cost of gasoline engines and with greater simplicity. Impatient prophets who interpret this as a sign that automobiles with Diesel engines are close at hand will have to burn while General Motors fiddles, according to Boss Kettering. Said he, opening the new plant: "You would not buy a Stradivarius violin and give it to a man to play in Carnegie Hall the same night. We have got a good fiddle, we know that, but we have got to do a lot of practicing...
Campaigns have also been made for turkeys, walnuts, dried fruit, apples, avocados, eggs. In many of them independent stores have also played a part. This year campaigns have already been planned for eggs, rice, potatoes. Because the 1937 bean crop is 23% greater than the 1928-32 norm, chain-store house organs last week sloganed: "Make America bean appreciative." Said Printers' Ink: "These campaigns have demonstrated that farm relief can be practical. . . . Here is a partnership of producers and distributors that has brought producers and consumers closer together, with a taste of prosperity for the farmer, but, unlike taxes...