Word: increment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests of Utah-these and similar facts are a valuable increment to the Nation's stories of its past, and better reading than any given dozen of psychological novels...
...alone. Behind them are fifteen thousand American families. And it is fair to assume, in the large, that every one of them, less than a generation ago, stood wholly remote from the possibility of being able to send a child to college. Yet now, in a single year's increment of the enrollment-list, fifteen thousand of their sons and daughters enter into the gates and the abounding opportunities of higher education...
...long been a matter of dispute as to whether the enormity of the crime has a great deal to do with the excitement attending its unraveling. In other words, is the dramatizatin of a murder-except for the added increment of horror-really any more enthralling than-as in the case of "Raffles "-the story of a jewel thief? After seeing "Raffles", the Playgoer is inclined to think not. It is the primal situation of hunted and hunter that counts; whether the penalty be loss of life or merely loss of liberty is a minor matter. Of course in this...