Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit that he was careful to call "unofficial," U. S. Minister Franklin Mott Gunther reminded Premier Goga of the adverse U. S. reaction to the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler. With greater finesse Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Ostrovsky informed the Rumanian Foreign Office that his presence was "no longer useful," and he wished to start home to Moscow within ten days...
Wallace. To refute the popular impression that farmers were better off than industry in 1937, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace offered a set of statistics: "The 1937 production of 53 crops was 13% greater than the 1929 production and 40% greater than the 1936 production, which was considerably curtailed by drought. The effect of this increase in the face of declining business activity and urban purchasing power has been a sharp drop in farm prices. Since December 1936 they have shrunk from 126% of the pre-War level to 104% of the pre-War level. The present level...
...three years, three years of great prosperity for our country, and that even at the time of the sinking of the "Lusitania," there was no real economic need for entering the conflict. We know now that at all events, the costs of isolation, if there are any, are never greater than the cost of participating in a war on foreign soil, for foreign interests and foreign capital...
...study session they are of real service to the whole college community, and their value can be still further increased by establishing the reviews when they are really needed--before the November hours. If there is a desire for a review before midyears, how much greater is the need before those dreaded hours which in so many cases determine the whole course of a college career...
...were you" find one interpretation of the cryptic words offered in the play of that name by Paul Hervey Fox and Benn W. Levy. These dramatists say that their farce was suggested by an idea in a novel of Thorne Smith's, but their debt would seem greater than they thereby admit. Their end is physic research not yet reduced to scientific terms; their media are sex and the bathroom. Through the resulting fantastic extravaganza Constance Cummings barges with considerable gusto. The situations she and her colleagues find themselves in are not infrequently, not invariably funny...