Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laboratory on Christmas Eve instead of going home to his family. One hour before midnight he developed his first film. It showed, as he suspected, that electrons had struck it at different places. The distance between the impacts showed that the mass of some electrons was 2.4 times greater than...
...correspond to the coefficients of the equations to be solved. A second series is geared together in the ratio of squares, cubes and higher powers. All the roots of an eighth-degree equation can be obtained in a half hour with a limit of error not greater than one or two per cent...
...three-day stands in a carefully planned route known as the "grapefruit circuit" (see map). Starting at sporty Pinehurst with the Mid-South Open in November [No. 1 on the map], they move down the coast one jump ahead of the thermometer, spend the month of December shuttling around Greater Miami and Nassau [tournaments this year: $10,000 Miami-Biltmore Open (No. 2), $3,500 Nassau Open (No. j), $3,000 Miami Open (No. 4), $4,000 Holly-wood Beach Hotel Open (No. 5)], swing over to California for a midwinter stand, then return to Florida [this year...
...talk abstract principles while advocating legislation in the economic interest of their section or class. A few miles from the parental household in Connecticut the younger branch of the Beard historical menage-Daughter Miriam, her husband Dr. Vagts and their precocious eight-year-old son Detlev- live in even greater retirement in a new brick house that has an electric dishwashing machine, but also no radio, no telephone. When Miriam Beard and Alfred Vagts were married, Vagts, who had been a German officer during the War, was a professor in Berlin, where they lived until shortly before Hitler came into...
...that those worthy gentlemen took it as an invitation to pay a visit to Harvard, the less that the University has of it, the better. If "action" means public rallies, circularized pamphlets, and participation in local politics, the Union is accomplishing nothing for its greater good at Harvard...