Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard work. It is intellectual power and aims that we need. In all the professions--learned, scientific, or industrial--large mental enjoyments should come to educated men. The great distinction between the privileged class to which you belong--the class that has opportunity for prolonged education--and the much larger class which has not that opportunity, is that the educated class lives mainly by the exercise of intellectual powers, and gets therefore a much greater enjoyment out of life than the much larger class that earns a livelihood chiefly by the exercise of bodily powers. You ought to obtain here...
...written statement of the proposals which are being moved and debated. ... It is proposed that the Council be enlarged by three semipermanent seats at the same time that Germany is admitted to a new permanent seat. I deplore the creation of semi-permanent seats for the aggrandizement of the larger powers over the smaller nations. . . . This is a great price to pay for a compromise among the powers on the admission of Germany...
...less than to suppress electoral government in every Italian city, town and village which enjoyed that privilege last week and to set up instead over each municipality a podesta (governor) appointed by the State. Since this measure was but an extension of the laws (TIME, Dec. 7), placing the larger Italian cities under podestas, the decree obtained at once the approval of Signor Mussolini, passed the Cabinet by a routine unanimous vote...
...Diego Navy air base. The contrivance weighed 45 Ibs. and measured 50 ft. across. Plane, pilot and equipment weighed just short of a ton. Naval observers were most enthusiastic after the test and Pilot Oelze was for another drop at once, to a level landing, with a slightly larger parachute...
...acute. He has spent his life, beginning with a three-dollar-a-week job on a Rochester paper, in newspaper offices. He has more social contacts than his associates; he is often seen at smart parties, gravely watching from a portière, or dancing with a lady larger than himself...