Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known that he does not approve at all of the propaganda which usually appears "at this time of year" (that is, when appropriations are in the making), propaganda deploring our military and naval unpreparedness and issuing from Army and Navy circles in hope of getting larger appropriations...
...munitions, etc., and that the U. S. Government collected in taxes from the munition makers "about 46% of the sums spent by France." Therefore, according to M. Lamoureux, France has already "paid" almost half of her debt to the U. S. and a still larger percentage of her debt to Britain...
...twin peaks of secondary education like Eton and Harrow, whereon hang all the pedagogical law and whose masters are the prophets. There has been no legendary "Arnold of Rugby" or "Sanderson of Oundle"* in the U. S. nor will there be. So many of our larger secondary schools were founded contemporaneously, and they soon multiplied so rapidly that though each school developed along its own lines, the special character of none had time to impress itself upon the public mind as a national institution before the coming of the public high school system, which relegated private education to a special...
...hole was made a little larger and the next day the workers of the Expedition went to the shaft with two powerful mirrors. One was lowered to the floor of the tomb by light lines and the other was focused to throw the light of the sun through the hole. When the inside mirror had been jiggled to the right position it reflected the sun's light from the first mirror to the interior of the tomb and the watchers far above got their first clear impression of what they had found...
...thrown on the educational facilities at Nancy, broadens the entire field of foreign study. It should eventually result in putting the travelling fellowship on better than a pre-war basis and doing away entirely with that enormous prejudice in the mind of the graduate scholar in favor of the larger English universities...