Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first game for the class championship was played on Jarvis yesterday afternoon before a larger number of spectators than has witnessed any 'Varsity game this season. A small crowd of eighty-eight men collected on the seats back of first base, and by their continuous cheering completely rattled the Freshmen, and aided their nine materially in winning the game. The game was close and exciting. Ninety seemed unable to hit Palmer safely, and their fielding was very uncertain. Young and Vila did the best playing for them. For Eighty eight Stetson made a very pretty running catch and then threw...
...Germany, where there is so much government control over railroads, has found it impossible to prohibit pools and equalize rates at the same time. Whereas Germany employs a force of 8000 men to manage railroad matters, our bill intends that five commissioners should do all the work over a larger area. They may take such aids as a yearly appropriation of $100,000 will provide...
...from consideration of the various matters referred to, that our modern ones are decidedly physically stronger and capable of greater exertion, and also that, independently of that, they are able to obtain more result from their exertions than the ancients. The men of the present day, we know, are larger than they were in bygone years, and therefore they should be more powerful; for it is an acknowledged axiom in sport that, other things being equal, "a big one will always beat the little one." - Nineteenth Century...
...opening piece of the April number by Francis A. Walker, is an interesting argument on the proposition that the source of business profits is in the intellectual abilities of each business man himself, that the more successful any man may be in business schemes and in business transactions, the larger will his profits be. Mr. Walker makes profits analogous to rent. Rent is the difference between the productive power of any given lot of land and the worst piece of land that it pays to cultivate; and so profit is the difference between the net assets of any business firm...
...considered his superior as an orchestral director. As Mr. Damrosch begged so earnestly to be granted a short time to finish up his morning rehearsal, the concession was made, and in the interim, the Corps de Ballet took lessons from their sister artistes who were practicing on the larger stage...