Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game to put on the table, and the range of other meats is very small. The perennial problem of the housewife is to plan the next day's meal to be such that her family will not complain of the lack of variety. The same is true, on a larger scale, of the restaurant owner, and especially of the proprietor of a college eating place, where the trade is the same every...
...mother told each other stories, sang songs together and discussed the little affairs that came their way as they sat and rocked and knitted or as she ironed put handkerchiefs on her own small ironing board, while mother was doing some of the larger pieces...
...Tufts, the Freshman team was forced to face a stiff fight to down the Holy Cross Freshmen, 14 to 0. Outweighed by their opponents, the Purple gridmen played a determined game of football, and kept down a score which, on the merits of team ability alone, might have been larger...
...present there is great agitation in naval circles for a larger Merchant. Marine, both for purposes of furthering economic prosperity, and as a safety measure. An extensive construction program is in prospect, which, if carried out, should rank the American Marine among the highest in the world. I believe that the impetus to this expansive policy came largely from the aggressive ideas and practice of Theodore Roosevelt...
...most encouraging tokens in the political situation is the announcement that the 1926 primary vote has broken all previous records in the history of the United States. Not only have senatorial figures been surpassed, but in over twelve states the primary election has been larger than the presidential ballot in 1924. Certainly the nation has awakened, at least temporarily, from its lethargy...