Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Employes of U. S. structural concerns have lately had much opportunity to improve their golf, their bridge or their gardens but not their incomes. With some of the larger builders business has continued to be good but, generally speaking, the building industry has been, and remains, in a notable slump. Last week a Bradstreet report based on building permits in 187 U. S. cities summed up this slump in the form of a concise figure. That figure was 23.4%. It represented the decrease in building for August 1929, compared to August 1928. It meant, roughly speaking, that for every four...
...explanation for Dr. Wunder's resignation was that he wanted to identify himself "with a larger ministry whose influence and field of service is national." He said he had time and again been invited to other pulpits, had invariably declined. But now he had been asked to join the firm of Ward, Wells & Dreshman, specialists in philanthropic, educational and religious financing. In the past ten years this Manhattan firm has raised...
...church members. The Sunday congregations, whooped up by advertising, average 3,500, fill the auditorium half an hour before the service. The annual budget of the Temple amounts to $120,000. While Dr. Wunder made no mention of his new salary, congregation members were confident it would be considerably larger than what he has received as a minister...
...this dedication Harvard marks the consummation of the campaign for a larger, better equipped Law School, begun in March, 1926, with an appeal to the American people for funds. As a result of this campaign, a large sum was secured for buildings and land, and with a part of this money the new Langdell Hall was completed...
...produced beginning September 30 in the Hollis Theatre, have been numerous and widespread. Offers from theatre managers within the reach of the metropolitan district have been made to the Theatre Guild but none possesses so many evident advantages as the University Theatre in Cambridge. It has a slightly larger capacity than the Hollis Theatre and is within easy reach of downtown Boston...